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ON FREE VIEW 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


FROM MONDAY, MARCH Ist, UNTIL THE MORNING 
OF THE DAY OF SALE 
FROM 9 A.M. UNTIL 6 P.M. 


THE VALUABLE COLLECTION 
OF 


ARTISTIC PROPERTY 


FORMED BY 


Mr. ARTHUR I. HOE 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS 
MARCH 5tTu AND 6r7p, 1915 
BEGINNING AT 2.30 O'CLOCK 


ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 


OF 


THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF 


ORIENTAL ART 


FINE GOBELINS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES 
PERSIAN AND CHINESE RUGS 


FORMED BY 


Mr. ARTHUR I. HOE 


(SON OF THE LATE ROBERT HOE) 
OF NEW YORK 


TO BE DISPOSED OF 


AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED 


THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY 
ASSISTED BY MR. OTTO BERNET, OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS 
NEW YORK 
1915 


THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 
DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECTS 
ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION 
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 


CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may 
be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be 
likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide 
the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- 
chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default 
of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and 
re-sold. 

Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the 
time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of 
which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the 
risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for 
the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and 
without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such 
purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall 
be a charge against such purchaser. 

4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment 
of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 
A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays—between the 
hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P.M. 

Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art 
Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- 
senting the bill of purchase. 

~ Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of 
any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 

5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in 
which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed 
by the Association for purchasers. ‘The Association will, however, 
afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and 
reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any 
assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of 
the parties engaged for such service. 

6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- 
chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and 
thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring 


for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if 
such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 

Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 

'{, Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association 
of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of 
any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, 
error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is 
on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which 
it is sold ‘‘as is” and without recourse. 

The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- 
rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy 
expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, 
in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention 
of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible 
for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper 
foundation. 


SPECIAL NOTICE. 

Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on 
orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faith- 
fully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so 
made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot 
in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of 
making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a pur- 
chaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been present at 
the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten 
days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if 
the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. 

Orders for execution by the Association should be written and 
given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. 
Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids 
should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists 
of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume 
or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is 
unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- 
mitted. Shipping directions should also be given. 

Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, 
will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. 

AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
American Art Galleries, 
Madison Square South, 
New York City. 


FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE 


FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 oO’CLOCK 


Catalogue Nos. 1 to 142 


CARVED JADE AND OTHER HARD STONES 


1—Whuitt JavE Coure 
Squat body expanding lightly from a neat foot, with well-defined 
shoulder and flaring rim. Gray-white translucent jade, with a 
soft polish and unctuous surface; carved with conventional 
archaic scrolls and six dentated ridges. 


2—Jape Wine Cur 


Translucent white jade veined with a bright moss-green; the 
cup ovoid and broadly spreading, on a lightly flaring foot. 
Brilliant polish. 


Diameter, 334 inches. 


3—JapE Paper KNIFE 
In short-sword form, flat, the blade pointed, and lightly etched 
with a simple meander, the handle corded. Fei-ts’wi jade, light 


emerald-green mottled with gray. 
Length, 1234 inches. 


4—CarVED JADE ORNAMENT 


Translucent white “snow-flecked” jade, carved as a Chinese boat 
upon a Chinese sea of swirling and leaping waves, the craft 
sculled in characteristic fashion by its single human occupant 
and bearing two storks—possibly upon its way to the happy 
abode of the immortals. It also carries peonies and the peaches 


of longevity. 
Length, 5°, inches. 


First Afternoon 


5—Mot?TrLeD JADE VASE wITH COVER 


Flattened. The structure a soft translucent whitish gray with 
small patches of fresh green, resembling thick snow melting in 
streams with detached bits of moss entangled in it. Elephant- 
head and loose-ring handles. Cover with blossom finial. Lightly 
carved with petal, palmation and fret borders. 

Height, 41, inches. 


6—WuiITE JADE VASE 


Pure white and brilliantly polished translucent jade, carved as 
a Fu-lion bearing on his back a beaker-shaped flower vase, the 
mid-section of the beaker carved with conventionalized archaic 
monster-heads. 

Height, 5 inches. 


Y—JaAvDE VASE 


Flattened pear-shape on a bold foot, with elephant-head and 
loose-ring handles. Mottled white jade with low relief carvings 
in archaic designs and incised fret borders. 

| Height, 51% inches. 


S—WHITE JADE PAPER-WEIGHT 


The famous horse riding the waves with the bundle of books 
on his back is carved in translucent white jade, his mane parted 
and finely etched. Soft polish. 

Length, 51%, inches. 


9—WhuiTtE JADE VASE wirH CovER 


Flattened, of ovoidal contour, with spreading foot, sloping shoul- 
der and tall neck, capped by a dome cover with knob finial. Loop 
and loose-ring handles. Pure white jade, smoothly polished, with 
pine, plum and bamboo trees and the sacred fungus carved in 
relief and in the round at either side. 

Height, 61%, imches. 


First Afternoon 


10—Whuire Jape Bown 


Translucent white jade with a mottling as of snow melting in 
water, carved thin and brightly polished. The bowl is of ovoid 
body on a low foot, with a deep and flaring rim. Carved on the 
exterior with a leaf border and an archaic conventional scroll 
in low relief, and under the foot with a key-fret, incised. In- 
terior plain below a meander border incised within the rim. 


Diameter, 6 inches. 


11—Whuiter Japrt VAsE witH CoveER 


Flattened flask shape with angular corners, and drawn down to 
a narrow foot, with shallow crescent shoulders carrying gro- 
tesque heads in bold relief. Translucent white jade with marble 
veining, brightly polished, with delicate relief carvings of conven- 
tionalized archaic monster motives and engraved fret. 


Height, 64, inches. 


12—WhuitrE JADE PAPER-WEIGHT 


In the form of a four-footed and tailed monster of heavy body, 
with dragon lineaments, partly crouching, his head turned 
straight back over his body and mouth holding a scrolling 
branch of the polyporus lucidus, the sacred fungus. Shoulders 
and hips are outlined with carved and incised bands of the 
thunder-scroll. 

Height, 447, inches; length, 43/4 inches. 


18—Carvine 1x Two-coLor JADE 
In translucent grayish-white jade is carved the figure of a sage, 
one arm raised above his head, the other at his belt, while beside 
him, under the raised arm, is a snuff-bottle in temple-jar form, 
the cover detachable, carved in opaque gray jade of rich note— 
another vein of the same piece of stone. Brilliant polish. 


Height, 51, inches. 


First Afternoon 


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14—WHuiITE JADE JAR orn Spitt HoupEr 


Cylindrical; translucent jade of soft gray-white tone and 
unctuous surface. Carved in relief with pine trees and pilgrims, 
and Shou-lao near a pavilion in the Taoist paradise with storks 
—messengers of the immortals—winging toward him. 


Height, 41% inches; diameter, 3% inches. 


15—WuiTE JAvE VASE 


In form of an ovoidal urn flattened, with full neck, loose-ring 
handles pendant from flower-stems, and pedestal foot. Wood 
cover surmounted by a monkey with a small monkey on his back, 
carved in white jade, as handle. The vase is of translucent 
cloudy-white jade, shot with broad feathery patches of brighter 
white, like larger snow-flakes drifting through air already . 
charged with fine particles of snow. Brilliant polish, with no 
further ornamentation than an incised key-fret border at the lip. 


Height, 8 inches. 


First Afternoon 


16—WhuitE JApE VASE witH CoveER 


Flattened flask-shape with rounded corners and pedestal foot, 
sloping shoulders and spreading and thickened lip; on the 
shoulders dragon and loose-ring handles; dome cover with animal 
finial. Pure white jade with a soft polish, carved with a phoenix 


under a tree and the full moon. 
Height, 71/4, inches. 


17—WHuitTE JADE PILGRIM-BOTTLE VASE WITH COVER 


Full-moon form on a bold foot, with scroll handles at the neck; 
flattened bell-shape cover with corded finial. ‘Translucent jade 
of soft grayish-white tone, with an all-over bas-relief decoration 
of foliations encompassing the eight emblems of happy augury. 


Height, 634 inches. 


18—MotrLep JADE INCENSE Box witH Cover 


Carved of the beautiful rich green and soft white jade of the 
variety suggesting “moss entangled in melting snow,” and bril- 
hantly polished. Quadrilateral, with cover in accord, on a 
spreading base; corners chamfered and edges bound with toothed 
ridges. Archaic monster-head motives, conventionalized, are 
carved in delicate relief on the broad surfaces of box and cover, 
the base is carved with palmations, and foot and cover-seam carry 


an incised “thunder scroll.”’ 
Height, 4 inches. 


19—MorTrrTLeD JADE VASE 


Gray-white jade richly mottled in light and dark green. Beaker- 
shape, carved with ridges on corners and sides, and with palma- 
tions and archaic monster lineaments in low relief and incised. 


Height, 61/, inches. 


20—F r1-ts’u1 JADE DovusLeE VASE 


Carved and pierced in the form of the gnarled trunks of pine 
trees growing side by side, with short stems of the foliage, each 
of two trunks hollowed to hold a flower, and a pair of birds 
perched atop of an up-reaching branch. White jade mottled 
with light and rich emerald-green. (Repaired.) 


Height, 41, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


No. 22 


No. 21 
SPECIMENS OF JADE 


First Afternoon 


21—F e1-Tts’u1 JADE VASE WITH COVER 


Flattened, of ovoidal contour, with abrupt shoulder and incurv- 
ing neck; pyramidal cover with button finial. Loop neck han- 
dles in the form of the sacred fungus, and at one side a floral 
stem, with the blossom hollowed to hold a flower or incense 

sticks. Carved with ancient monster motive in low relief, and 
incised fret-borders. Translucent jade in light emerald-green 
and white. (Slight defect and repair at side leaf.) 


Height, 41/, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


22—WHuiTE JADE OrpENwork DisH witH CoveER 


Circular, with spreading sides, on a flange foot; low dome cover. 
Sides pierced with an archaic dragon and pheenix scroll between 
borders of conventional lotus petals and key-fret. Design re- 
peated in the cover, about a medallion displaying the phcenix 
amid peony and plum blossoms, the whole in openwork carving. 


Diameter, 5 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


23—Carvep Buppuist IMAcE In WHITE JADE 


The dignified Buddhistic figure is seated cross-legged on a thala- 
mus, crossed hands palm-upward on the lap, before the char- 
acteristic fan-shaped throne-back, whose edge is pierced in 
scrolls. Carved from a single block of white jade, translucent 


at the extremities, opaque in its densest mass. 
Height, 81% inches. 


24—WHuiTE JADE BEAKER-SHAPED VASE 


The beaker emerges from a swirl of waves, combing with curl- 
ing spray, and stands upright as though upheld in the tumult 
by the supernatural power of the ascending dragon which rises 
beside it, his exhalations taking not the form of flame but of 
cloud-scrolls in which rests high aloft the pearl of omnipotence. 
All this in high relief and undercutting, besides which the beaker 
is carved with palmations and archaic motives, incised and in 


low relief. Soft, lustrous polish. 
Height, 81% inches. 


First Afternoon 


25—Wuire JavE Disu 
Shallow, on a deep foot. Translucent and delicately mottled; — 
soft and bright polish. Exterior of rim carved with thunder- 
scroll and scepter-head borders. In the interior the eight Bud- 
dhistic emblems of happy augury are carved in delicate relief 
about a conventionalized lotus-petal medallion, within whose 
central disk the jade structure reveals tones of mauve. 


Diameter, 8 inches. 


26—Gray Jape Covered VASE 

Cauldron-shape on a deep, spreading foot, with projecting mons- 
ter-head and loose-ring handles, and dome cover with a knob 
handle carved with a rope molding. Besides sundry bold ridges 
such as characterized the ancient bronzes, both body and cover 
are carved with archaic dragons in low relief and incised with 
the thunder-scroll. On the foot are palmations. The jade is 
of a soft fog-gray tone and is brilliantly polished. 

Height, 514 inches; diameter, 91%, inches. 


27—WHITE JADE VASE WITH COVER 


Flattened pear-shape with wide neck, on a deep foot; tall cover 
with knob finial edged with a rope molding. Five-clawed dragon 
handles carved in the round. Musical jade, soft grayish-white 
and translucent, delicately mottled and with luminous surface. 
Carved in delicate relief with various archaic motives highly con- 
ventionalized, and with an intermittent ridge in bold relief formed 


of blocks incised with the key-fret. 
Height, 9 inches. 


28—WhuirTE JADE VASE wITH CovER 


In flask-shape with a lightly spreading foot, broad neck with 
dragon-head loop and loose-ring handles, and cover surmounted 
by a coiling lizard-dragon. Translucent white jade carved with 
bands of palmations, the thunder-scroll, and a scroll involving 
highly conventionalized elements of the Indian lotus motive. 


Height, 8 inches. 


First Afternoon 


29—JapE Carvine 

A mass of delicately flecked and mottled translucent white jade 
is ingeniously carved in representation of the Buddha’s-hand cit- 
ron, one of the “fruits of the abundances,” the mass shaped as 
two branches of the plant, or two of the many-fingered hands of 
Buddha, upright, growing from a tangle of root stems. These in 
turn are carved in openwork, and twining among them are other 
stems bearing the other fruits of the abundances, peaches and 
pomegranates. ‘The whole has a soft, unctuous polish. 

Height, 10 inches. 


30—WHITE JADE BEAKER-SHAPED VASE 


The three conventional sections quadrilateral, the lower and 
upper spreading and the central expanded boldly; on each. 
corner a protruding ridge of T-shaped sections and midway of 
each side a ridge of solid sections. Middle part carved with 
archaic conventions and the upper and lower with deep pal- 


mations; the whole after ancient bronze patterns. 
Height, 8 inches. 


First Afternoon 


381—Japrt Bow. wiru Cover, JEWELED 


Transparent white jade, so thin that writing may be read 
through it. The bowl is deep, on a low foot, and its low dome 
cover has an open knob finial. Cloud scrolls and bats are very 
lightly etched on both bowl and cover, and both are studded with 
jewels in geometric designs. (Some jewels missing. ) 


Diameter, 5 inches; height, 3%, inches. 


32—JapE ANIMAL GROUP 


A spotted stag, recumbent, and his smaller spotted companion 
standing at his side, are carved from a single block of translucent 
white jade, with a flower stem held in their mouths and the sacred 
fungus growing against the stag’s back. The stars (spots) of 
their coats are lightly incised. The jade is brilliantly polished 
and in translucence has a slight greenish trend. 

Length, 7/, inches. 


383—MorTrLtep GREEN JADE VAsE wiTH COVER 


Quadrilateral, the chamfered corners dentate and a similar den- 
tate ridge midway of each side and end, with upright loop han- 
dles; on four curling feet issuing from monster-heads. Dome 
cover with a flat oblong handle. Richly mottled gray-white and 
emerald-hued jade, much of the green in the deeper note of moss 
hidden in the woods. Archaic monster-head carvings in bas- 
relief on all exterior surfaces, with incised thunder-scroll borders. 


Height, 8 inches; length, 7 inches. 


34—OrnaTE JADE Vase witH Cover 


The stone has a clear musical note when struck, and in color 
is of a soft gray tone resembling cooked mutton fat beginning 
to cool. Its translucence against a strong light yields a delicate 
greenish-gray hue. The vase proper is in elongated flask-shape, 
with smooth unctuous surface, and a three-clawed dragon carved 
in relief about the shoulder. Beside it, carved of the same stone, 
a phoenix perched upon rockery holds in its beak a branch of 
blossoming peonies. The dome cover of the vase has a knob 
finial with rope molding. 

Height, 834 inches. 


First Afternoon 


385—WHITE JADE VASE wiITH CovER 


Quadrilateral, the body in inverted pyramid form and flattened, 
on an underbody foot, with sloping shoulders, wide neck and 
thick lip; loop and loose-ring handles; cover with blossom 
finial. Pure white jade of delicate translucence, ornamented 
with a band of archaic monster-head and scroll motive, pal- 


mations and thunder-scroll borders. 
Height, 934 inches. 


86—JavE Mountain 


Heavy and solid, a rock-like piece of mottled gray-white jade, 
Opaque in its mass, is carved in the form of a seamed and rugged 
mountain. On one side are caverns, a mountain stream, and 
pine trees carved in relief; on the other a temple or pavilion is 
seen in a grotto, a sage emerging from it, on his way to meet 
a brother approaching on a horned beast of burden and followed 
by an attendant. Aloft are more pine trees, and a long inscrip- 


tion neatly incised. 
Height, 51%, inches; length, 7/4, inches. 


First Afternoon 


37—WHITE JADE VASE 


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No. 37 


Quadrilateral with ovoidal contour, 
angular corners, crescent neck with 
monster-head and loose-ring han- 
dles, and spreading foot; teakwood 
cover surmounted by a white jade 
group of two tigers, as handle. 
Translucent grayish-white jade, 
boldly carved with downward-point- 
ing deep palmations bordered with 
key-fret and _ enclosing archaic 
dragons with scrolling bodies; on 
the neck conventional scrolls and 


scepter-heads. 
Height, 101%, inches. 


38—JapE Dracon VASE 


Translucent jade of a light, soft, 
fog-gray, carved in the form of a 
fish-dragon poised upright on his 
curled tail, with opened mouth; the 
interior hollowed. Waves leap up at 
one side, and above them a dragon 
pursues the flaming jewel among 


cloud-scrolls, all boldly carved and undercut. 


Height, 81/, inches. 


39—GREEN JADE Disu witH Cover 


In the shape of an ancient tripod incense burner or sacrificial 
vessel in bronze; a shallow ovoidal bowl on three low animal- 
head feet, with protuberant monster-head and loose-ring handles, 
and dome cover with conventionalized flower-petal finial. Gray- 
ish-green jade with gray mottlings, translucent to the point of 
semi-transparency, with soft polish. Bowl and cover carved with 
scrolls and the monster-head elements of archaic bronze orna- 


mentation, in bas-relief. 


Diameter, 8 inches. 


First Afternoon 


40—Whuitr JApE Vase witH Cover 


Ovoidal body, flattened, on tall foot, with 
tall wide neck; dome cover surmounted 
by a Fu-lion rampant, carved in the 
round. ‘Translucent cloudy-white jade 
with delicate feathery white fleckings; 
brightly polished. Carved with conven- 
tionalized archaic dragon-scrolls and 
monster-heads, and borders of bosses and 
cording. ‘T'wo projecting dragon-head 
handles. 

Height, 11 inches. 


41—ImMPERIAL JADE CARVING 


An impressive mass of pure white jade 
with delicate greenish translucence, and 
exhibiting russet touches, is carved as a 
group of three goats, indicating that it 
was fashioned for the Emperor’s private 
use. A great goat is lying down, with a 
; smaller one lying at his side and another 
No. 40 ) small one lying on his back. ‘The one 
at the side holds in his mouth a prolific 
branch of the polydorus lucidus, carved in a grayish patch of the 
jade, and the whole has a brilliant polish. 
Height, 51% inches; length, 6%, inches. 


42—WhuitrE Jape VasE witH CovER 

In flattened double-gourd form, on a pedestal foot, with loose- 
ring handles pendant from blossom-stems ; the cover dome-shaped 
with a double gourd finial. Carved in high and low relief with 
baskets of flowers, bats, and the Buddhistic emblems of happy 
augury, and beneath the rim with a delicate border of pendants. 
The jade is touched with the russet-yellow of iron corrosion and 
is brightly polished and translucent. 

. Height, 11 inches. 


First Afternoon 


43—ELABORATE JADE CARVING 
Translucent white jade with a soft and brilliant polish, ingeni- 
ously treated in a complexity of related motives. Beneath are 
swirling waters, on which lotus plants lie,—flowers, leaves, buds 
and seedpods—and amongst them a mandarin duck is sitting, 
while wavelets leap up around her, in the midst of the leaves, and 
on one side a snail is emerging from a shell attached to a leaf. 
The whole carved in relief and openwork and the duck’s wing 


feathers engraved. 
Length, 61, inches; height, 434 inches. 


44—Wuitrt JapE Vase witH CovER 

Pilgrim-bottle shape on a bold foot, 
with earth-dragon handles and 
other earth-dragons carved in re- 
lef lower down the sides; dome 
cover with a border of peaches and 
plum blossoms in low relief. The 
faces of the bottle are carved re- 
spectively with a phoenix in a peach 
tree, and a small bird perched on 
a branch of the tree peony growing 
among rocks, executed in relief 
within a circular medallion. 


Height, 934 inches. 


45——JapE Birp VasE witH CovER 
Brilhantly polished translucent 
grayish-white jade of soft tone, with 
yellowish marble veinings, carved in 
the form of a feng-huang, squatting, 
with head raised and the fantastic 
tail feathers partly erect and partly 
curled under in openwork. The 
body is hollowed, and a vase-neck erected on the back is capped 
by a dome cover surmounted by a dragon carved in openwork 
coiled about the flaming jewel. Aside from various archaic orna- 
mentation and scrolls on the body of the bird, the wing and 
neck feathers are engraved. 


No. 44 


Length, 111% inches; height, 914 inches. 


First Afternoon 


46—GREEN JADE VASE WITH COVER 


In the form of some ancient bronze incense burners; cauldron- 
shaped, on a low, spreading foot, with long recurving and ex- 
panding handles, attaching at lower body and rim; dome cover. 
Richly mottled translucent green jade of prevailing deep note, 
with a soft polish. Both bowl and cover carved in bold relief 
with the ancient ogre lineaments and conventional scroll; rim 
and handles bordered with an incised key-fret. Cover surmounted 
by knob finial carved in high relief and undercut in the form 
of a dragon with the coveted jewel of power in his grasp. (One 


handle repaired.) 
Height, 734, inches; width, 11 inches. 


47—IMPERIAL JADE MounrTain 


A beautiful piece of pure white jade brilliantly polished takes 
the shape of a mountain, or rather a part of a range of moun- 
tains, and on the ledges are carved rugged pine trees and on the 
slopes three goats, recumbent—the goats signifying that the 
piece was for the Emperor’s use. 

Height, 31%, inches; length, 1014 inches. 


First Afternoon 


48—GREEN JADE VASE 


Pilgrim-bottle shape on a pedestal foot, with broad neck sup- 
porting handles of carved blossoms. Dense opaque green jade 
of dark and rich hue, with lustrous polish. Obverse and reverse 
skilfully carved and engraved with a luxuriant peony scroll in 
bold relief; other floral scrolls around the sides; incised fret 
borders on foot and neck. 

Height, 1014 inches. 


49—JaprE Mountain 


A mountainous mass of white jade, tinged here and there with 
a soft russet hue from iron rust, exhibits in its cavernous sides 
and on sloping ledges a spotted stag and his doe, and a company 
of musicians busily playing, near pavilions among pine and 


willow trees. 
Height, 5%, inches; length, 7%, inches. 


First Afternoon 


50—Parr JapE Praaurs or TABLE SCREENS 


Disks of cloudy-white jade, ornamented with green jade, soap- 
stone, lapis-lazuli, malachite, coral and other stones, appliqué, 
in designs of peach, plum and bamboo trees, growing among 
rocks beside water where the lotus blooms and the stork flies 
overhead. Carved wood stands. 


Diameter, 91% inches; height with stand, 1614 inches. 


First Afternoon 


51—JaprE Mountain 


An irregular mountain-shaped mass or slab of white jade, shot 
on various surfaces with a rich russet brown from iron corrosion, 
which gives it a slightly yellowish translucence if held against 
a strong light. Obverse carved in altorelievo with the Taoist 
immortal Li T’ieh-kuai conjuring from his magic pilgrim’s gourd 
the eight Buddhistic emblems of happy augury, rising out of 
a cloud within a shallow grotto. Around and on the reverse 


are pine trees. 
Height, 61% inches. 


52—YrLttow JADE Frower Vase 


Elongated pear-shape, slightly flattened, with slender neck curv- 
ing to one side and truncated; and a loop and loose-ring handle, 
giving a powder-horn effect. Opaque jade of pale canary-yel- 
low, a rare color in jade, with relief and undercut carvings of 


dragons, cloud-scrolls and an emblematic bat. 
Height, 434, inches. 


53—AcaTE VASE 


Brown agate, carved as a hollowed and flattened bamboo stalk, 
with bamboo branches and leaves in low relief on the obverse and 
reverse, a border of bosses at the base, and at the sides a phoenix 
and a branch of peonies in a light translucent milky gray. 


Height, 3 inches. 


54—Birure Acatse VAsE 


Carved as a piece of a bamboo trunk, with close-clinging smaller 
trunks and branches of leaves, in brilliant agate of a bluish-lav- 
ender hue, slightly translucent. A phcenix in relief is found on 
either side, and on top is a butterfly in ight brown agate. 


Height, 41%, inches. 


55—LaPIS-LAZULI VASE WITH COVER 


A dragon, a phoenix, a rock peony tree and the sacred fungus 
are carved in bold relief and undercutting around a rock shaped 
as a vase and hollowed, the whole out of a single mass of inter- 
mingled lapis-lazuli and gray jade. 

Height, 5 inches. 


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56—AcatTE Friower VASE 


In the form of an irregular cylindrical jar in clouded white 
agate, carved with a crane in high relief, and having on the back 
an incised inscription of twenty characters, the jar supported 
on growths of the polyporus lucidus in carnelian and the carne- 
han continuing up the front of the jar, where it is carved as a 


peach tree with fruits. Bright polish. 
Height, 41%, inches. 


57—SoaPsTonE Boat 


A representation of the Emperor’s boat which used to float on 
the Yangtse-kiang, with the monarch seated at table near the 
bow, being served with wine and cake, and at the stern the steers- 
man and another figure; carved of grayish soapstone, as are the 
waters on which it rests, on a marbled soapstone base. 


Length, 11%, inches. 


58—Lapis-Lazutt/TasLeE SCREEN 
A quadrilateral plinth of rich blue lapis-lazuli, Aiataeteretically 
clouded, is set upright in a teakwood standard. On one face the 
stone is engraved with a gnarled tree and on the other with in- 
scriptions of more than sixty characters. 
Height (of lapis), 714 inches; (of screen), 11 inches. 


~59—Gtass Jae BorriLe 

Ovoidal and flattened, with monster-head and ring shoulder han- 
dles in low relief. Landscapes, minutely penciled, in low tones, 
and a caligraphic inscription in eight columns, with seals in 
red, painted on the inner side of the glass. 


60—Cameo-ciass SNUFF BoTTLEe 
Pavilion, a flying stork with a rod in its bill, a bat, a carp leap- 
ing from the water, the sun setting in the sea and a peach tree 
with fruit, all in wine-color glass in relief over white glass of 
of ground glass effect. 


61—Acatre Snurr Botre 
Ovoidal and flattened; carved with flying birds and branches 
of blossoms and. fruits, in low relief; the agate a smoky-gray 
with streaks of light and dark brown. 


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62—AcaTE SnuFF BoTTLeE 


Brownish mottled agate, in flattened globular form on a low 
foot; plain save for monster-heads in relief at the shoulders. 


63—CaMEO-GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 


The nelumbian lotus,—leaves, buds, blossoms and seed-pods,—in 
wine-color over white glass of frosted glass effect. 


64—Guass SnurF BorrLe 
Elongated, slender form, in bright blue, supporting sprays of 
flowers in brilliant snow-white glass in white slip effect. 
Height, 3 inches. 


65—Guass SnurFr Borrue 


Flattened form of ovoid contour, with short neck. Rich and 
brilliant mottled red, with yellow patches. 


66—AcaTE SnuFF BorTrre 

Flattened form, of ovoidal contour, and brightly polished. The 
agate is of a misty-grayish hue, and the natural outlines of a 
rich brown patch within it have been cleverly utilized to present 
the semblance of a convivial man in European garb, who ap- 
pears to be looking with agreeable anticipation toward a brown 
jug, which is counterfeited naturally in another patch of the 
same tone deeper in the body. 


67—AcaTE SnuFF Borrie 
In form of a vase in smoky agate, in front of it a vine leaf and 
stem in carnelian hue, holding a melon in the vase color. Cover 
of the same material surmounted by a fox. 


68—AcaTE Twin Snurr Borries 
Two slender tubular jars carved of mottled brown agate, with 
delicate leaf sprays in slight relief, and a Fu-lion in bold relief 
executed in a water-white vein extending across the front. 


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69—PaiInTED Guass SNuFF BoTriLe 


Corpulent form, with warriors and attendants on horseback 


painted on the under side of the glass. 
Height, 3 inches. 


70—AcaTE PENDANT 


Two animals of the cat family are carved in a cloudy translucent 
agate, with ornamentation in slight patches of carnelian hue. 


71—AcatE PENDANT 


A tiger curled in sleeping attitude is carved, with a scepter-head 
scroll, in mottled translucent agate of brown and grayish hue. 


72—AGATE PENDANT 
Carnelian and yellowish-gray hue; carved and pierced in an in- 
determinate. motive which appears to suggest elephant heads 
oddly contorted; bright polish. 


738—Two Acate PENDANTS 
One, a peach of longevity with stem and leaves, in mottled 
brown agate; the other a carving of monkeys, a bat and the 
sacred fungus, pierced and undercut, in milky-water and car- 
nelian hue. 


74—Fovur AcatEe PENDANTS 
Egg-plants and gourds carved in translucent agate, brown and 
a milky white. 


75—AQUAMARINE PENDANT 
Ingeniously carved and brilliantly polished; on the top a small 
animal. Suspended below a triangular bead of pink tourmaline 
with seed pearls. 


16—JaDE PENDANT 
In delicate fei-ts’wi-green and chalk-white jade,—the colors dis- 
tinctly separated—with bright polish; carvedy pierced and en- 
graved with bats, gourds, vine-leaves and pomegranates. Coral 


bead above. 
(Illustrated) 


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Y7—Fer-ts’u1 JADE PENDANT 


- Carved and pierced in the gourd vine motive, with double gourds 
of varying size, leaves, and stems twisting about one another; 
the jade a very light emerald and white with delicate trans- 
lucence. | 


(Illustrated) 


T8—FeEr-ts’ur JADE PENDANT 


Oblong and flat, carved with bats and other motives; the stone 
translucent, with sections of feathery white and a delicately 
mottled rich emerald-green. Coral bead above. 


(Illustrated) 


79—Patir Fei-ts’ur Jape PENDANTS 


Suspended on yellow silk cord below coral beads; carved, pierced 
and engraved in a vine and fruit design. 


(Illustrated) 


80—Two PENDANTS 


One in two-color jade, a deep, dense green and a pale-greenish 

_ white, carved in the motive of the “two tigers,” one beast in each 
vein; the other pendant of pink and white tourmaline, with a bril- 
lant iridescence, carved with fruits and a flying bat. Over the 
tourmaline a bead of fei-ts’ut jade, and over the jade pendant a 
coral bead. 


81—F EzI-Ts’u1 JapE PENDANT 


Richly mottled emerald-green and a “melting snow” grayish- 
white; carved in relief with a bird in a bamboo tree over a mons- 
trous animal; brilliant polish. Above, a bead of pink tourmaline 
—the ‘‘Chinese ruby.” 


82—F r1-Ts’u1 JADE PENDANT 


Oblong and flat, carved with a very bundle of good wishes, ex- 
pressed by the emblematic bats and fruits of the abundances, 
the peach, pomegranate and Buddha’s-hand citron. The stone 
a rich mingling of emerald-green and jade white, with a bright 


polish. 


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88—Two Rocx Crystrat Docs Fu’ 
One with tail erect and head turned to his left, the other a 
tail spread over his back, more leonine features, and his whole 


body curled toward the left. 
Length, 3 inches. 


84—Rock Crystat Coupe witH CovER 
Carved in brilliant rock crystal, brightly volished, in the form 
of a pair of mandarin ducks—emblems of marital felicity—with 
stems of the nelumbian lotus in their bills, and on the back of 
the larger a seed-pod, hollowed as a cup, with the seed layer 


removable as cover. 
Length, 41/, inches. 


85—Rocx Crystat VAsE wiTtH CovER 
Carved in flask shape surrounded and held within blossoming 
plant forms and rockery, in brilliant crystal. On one face a 
stork carved in relief in a projecting layer of the crystal reflects 
a bright rainbow iridescence, and on one side is seen a phoenix 
and also a fungus branch. Animal head and loose ring handles. 
The cover is carved with a phenix and a branch of the fungus 


as a knob handle. 
Height, 6 inches. 


86—Carvep Ivory ORNAMENT 


Conical form, carved in openwork with a figure and animal under 
a pine tree. 


87—Rurnoceros Horn Cur 


Characteristic form, expanding from a trunk-like foot, like the 
supra-surface root or base of an aged tree, inverted. Rich, mel- 
low dark brown. Carved with pines and other trees, with a lux- 


uriance of foliage. 
Height, 51% inches; length, 8 inches. 


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88—Cinnapar Lacever Box wirn Cover 


Circular, of ovoid contour, on a low foot; box and cover of 
equal proportions and the top of cover flattened. Carved with 
a lattice, and four borders of the thunder-scroll, the lattice in- 
terrupted by panels of relief carvings picturing Taoist immor- 
tals and attendants, in cinnabar on a green lattice ground. On 
the top of the cover, five-clawed dragons, squirming through a 
turbulent sea, in pursuit of the flaming jewel floating on its sur- 
face. Height, 9 inches; diameter, 11 inches. 


88A4—ImperiaL CH’IEN-LUNG CircuLar Cake Box 
Of cinnabar lacquer, skilfully and profusely carved. The top 


panel of the cover depicts a scene representing the retreat of the 
Taoist Genii, with figures of the immortals and their attributes. 
The sides of box and cover are beautifully embellished with pas- 
sion flowers and leafy scrolls and bands of fret artistically carved 


in bold relief. 


Height, 71/, inches; diameter, 18 inches. 


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ORIENTAL PORCELAINS 


89—MustTarpD-YELLow SnuFF Bottite (Ch%en-lung) 


Slender body with short neck. Brilliant light mustard-yellow 
glaze with fish-roe crackle. 


90—MiniaTurRE Borrie 
Pear-shaped, glazed in a dark cucumber green with fine crackle. 
Height, 3 inches. 


91—Miniature Buack Borrye (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body with short straight neck. Glazed in a luminous 


black, with white lip. 
Height, 3 inches. 


92—MiniaturE Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Elongated body with short neck and spreading lip. Covered with 


a camellia-leaf glaze truitée. 
Height, 3 inches. 


93—Minrature Mirror-piack Bottrie (Chien-lung) 


Double-gourd form, or in the shape of a small vase resting on 
an ovoid jar; coated with a black glaze of mirror brilliance. 


Height, 31, inches. 


94—Miniature Bortte (Yung Chéng) 


Pear-shape with short straight neck; low foot. Glazed in a deep 
and mottled coral, softly lustrous. 
Height, 3 inches. 


95—Miniature Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Globular with short wide neck and flaring lip. Dense porcelain 
coated in a rich glaze of deep seal-brown darkening to black, the 
rim white and the interior of the neck mottled. 


96—MiniaturE VAsE (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid with slender neck and spreading lip. Brilliant camellia- 
leaf green glaze with fish-roe crackle. 
Height, 3 inches. 


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97—MarBsueizep VasE (Ch’ten-lung) 


Ovoidal club-shape with sloping shoulder, short neck and flaring 
lip. Glazed in a light yellow, streaked, as irregularly veined 
marble or onyx, with strong and pale blues and dull reds. 


Height, 31, inches. 


98—MiniaturE Borrre (Ch’ten-lung) 


Of the double-gourd order, with a brilliant glaze of rich, dark 
seal-brown, verging at bottom toward black. 
| Height, 314, inches. 


99—Miniature Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal and slender. Brilliant glaze of mustard-yellow with 
fish-roe crackle; lip glazed in green. 
Height, 3 inches. 


100—Smatt PEACHBLOOM JAR 


Pear-shape with wide neck, slightly expanding at the lip. Deli- 
cate porcelain, coated with a deep, rich, peach-pink glaze, lus- 
trous, and even in quality save that under the lip the tone 
lightens and about the neatly defined foot deepens in hue. 


101—Miniature Brive Bottrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


Squat body on a low foot with straight tubular neck. Glazed 
in a brilliant blue of lapis quality, the interior and the under- 
foot in pistache hue. Under the foot the seal mark of Ch’ien- 
lung in coral on white reserve. 

Height, 31, inches. 


102—Wuire Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 

In form of a quadrilateral ancient bronze vase on a low stand, 
with two animal-head shoulder-handles in bold relief. Low re- 
lief decoration modeled in the paste, in representation of an 
ancient bronze incised swastika-lattice, enclosing Shou medal- 
lions; key-fret shoulder-border and palmations about the neck; 
the whole glazed in pure and brilliant white. 

; Height, 414 inches. 


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1083—Smatut Peacusioom Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 
In squat beaker form. Delicate, vibrant porcelain, invested on 
both inner and outer surfaces with a brilliant glaze of rich peach- 
bloom tones and deep mottling. 


104—GreEN DovsiE-courp Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Coated with a luminous glaze of watermelon-green. 
Height, 41%, inches. 


105—Smatyt Brack Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 
Ovoid with abbreviated neck and out-curling lip. Coated with 
a deep and brillant black glaze with orange-skin surface, not 
the true mirror-black but with an inclination toward brown; the 


lip white. 
Height, 4 inches. 


106—“Sorrt Paste” Wuire Vase (Yung Chéng) 


Bottle-form, with globular body and slender straight neck. The 
so-called “soft paste,” molded with a decoration of butterflies 
and flowers in low relief under a soft, creamy white glaze with a 


delicate café-au-lait crackle. 
Height, 5 inches. 


107—Hare’s-Fur Jar (Ch’ien-lung) , 
Ovoid with full, rotund body, sloping shoulder and short neck 
with wide mouth. Two animal-head and ring handles in relief 
at the shoulder. Covered with a glaze of great brilliancy in a 


soft and rich brownish-green sometimes referred to as the “coat 


of the hare.” 
Height, 334 inches. 


108—GreEEN CrackLe Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoidal with short neck and flaring lip. Brilliantly glazed in a 
soft and tender green as of willows in the springtime, with a 


bold mosaic crackle of dark lines. 
Height, 5 inches. 


109—Raven’s-wine Borrie (K’ang-hst) 
Full-bodied pear-shape with slender neck. Fine hard paste porce- 
lam invested with a monochrome glaze of brilliant black shot 
with a purplish iridescence and revealing vestiges of a finely pen- 


ciled decoration in gold. 
Height, 514 inches. 


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110—Gray Crackiep Vase (Yung Chéng) 
Bulbous oviform body with narrow waist and spreading foot, 
and truncated neck. Coated with a lustrous gray glaze spread 
with a flecking of café-au-lait, and threaded by a bold crackle in 
black lines. The glaze and crackle extend over the interior of 


the vase and continue underneath the foot. 
Height, 534 inches. 


111—Pair CaMELiia-creen Vases (K’ang-hsi) 


In melon-form, elongated; with short, constricted neck, and on 
short feet. Covered with a brilliant glaze in the rich green of 


the camellia leaf, with a fine crackle. 
Height, 5%, inches. 


112—PeracusBitoom CouPrE 


Broad, deep body, with delicate everting lip, on a low foot. 
Clear, resonant porcelain; both exterior and interior coated with 
a luminous glaze of the peachbloom variety, the ground a deep 
pink, lightly mottled and flecked in pale greenish tones. Mark: 
the six characters of Hsiian Té (apocryphal). 


Diameter, 41% iches. 


1138—Cracke Vase 
Ovoidal, with high, sloping shoulder, short contracted neck and 
spreading lip. Dense porcelain, coated with a crea 
glaze crackled throughout, and having a faint flush which espe- 
cially within the lip partakes of the palest notes seen on the 


mottled peachblooms. 
Height, 514, inches. 


114—Pracusitoom Coure (Yung Chéng) 

Fine, delicate, hard paste porcelain with clear musical note, 
ovoid in outline on a short foot. Glazed within in a character- 
istic Yung Chéng white, and on its outer surface with a soft, 
lightly flecked and deep-toned peachbloom-pink, which just be- 
low the rim and on the foot takes the brown of ashes-of-roses. 
The surface of the glaze is of the very delicate peau-d’orange 
variety. Mark, in underglaze blue within the blue double ring, 
Ta Cl’ing Yung Chéng men-chth (Made in the reign of Yung 
Chéng of the Great Ch’ing—the lately collapsed—dynasty). 


Diameter, 4 inches. 


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115—Pracusioom Coupe (K’ang-hst) 
Or writer’s water dish. Shallow circular form with compressed- 
globular contour and wide mouth; on low foot. Covered with 
a rich peachbloom glaze of deep pink and deeper mottlings, with 
occasional lighter patches and specks of green. Under the foot 
the six characters of K’ang-hsi in brilliant blue. (Repaired. ) 


Diameter, 414, inches. 


116—Pracupitoom Water Cup (K’ang-hst) 


Writer’s water receptacle. Semi-globular, with three cloud- 
scroll medallions etched in the paste; glazed in a soft and lumin- 
ous peachbloom, delicately mottled. Mark, the six characters of 


the reign in brilliant underglaze blue. 
Diameter, 5 inches. 


117—Peacu-cotor Bown (Ch’ien-lung) 


Flaring in ovoidal outline, which recurves to the rim, from a 
short circular foot. Fine hard paste of musical tone, glazed 
on both exterior and interior in a deep, dark peach-pink, uni- 
form in quality throughout and having a delicate peau-d’orange 
surface. The rim is glazed in white, as is the underfoot, which 


carries the seal mark of the reign in blue. 
Diameter, 734 inches. 


118—Coxsatt-BLvuE Fruir Puate (Ch’ien-lung) 


Fine, sonorous porcelain, modeled in shallow, spreading form on 
a low foot. Glazed on upper and lower surfaces in a softly 
brilliant pure cobalt-blue of delicate peau-d’orange quality, the 
color lessening on the rim-edge, and the underfoot being glazed 
in white. The foot itself exposes the biscuit. 


Diameter, 101% inches. 


119—Spxiasu Vase (Tao-kuang) 
Globular body on a bold foot, with broadly sloping shoulder 


and slender neck, expanding at the lip. Heavy vibrant porcelain 
coated with a brilliant glaze of rich mahogany-brown, mottled 
and splashed with dark brown, black, a greenish-brown and 
greenish-gray. 

Height, 81 inches. 


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120—Spuasu Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Melon-form on a low spreading foot, with short neck and flaring 
scalloped lip. Coated with a reddish-purple glaze of mirror 
brilliance, splashed, streaked and feathered with a soft and deli- 
cate gray. The gray wholly covers the lip and the interior of 
the neck, where it discloses a fine crackle. Under the foot the seal 


mark of Ch’ien-lung, incised. 
Height, 7%, inches. 


121—SrTatvuEtTtTEe oF AN Emperor (Ch’ien-lung) 


Seated, bolt upright, in flowing imperial robes, with elaborate 
headdress and wearing a haughty and severe expression. Glazed 
throughout in a pure and luminous white. Characters incised 


beneath the glaze on the back. 
Height, 121, inches. 


122—GuosuLar T'wo-HANDLED JuG-sHAPED VAsE (Ch’ien-lung) 


With short, molded neck and bulbous lip. The recurving han- 
dles, attaching to the shoulder, issue from animal heads on the 
lip. Vibrant hard paste porcelain, covered with a brilliant and 
handsome souffié glaze in peachbloom tones over a bluish-gray 
of clair-de-lune type. Under the foot the fine biscuit is exposed, 


the glaze being omitted. 
Height, 914 inches. 


123—GuopuLar Borrie-sHarPeD VasE (Ch’ien-lung) 
Ovoidal body with a short, wide and straight neck. Coated with 
‘a brilliant glaze in a delicately mottled liver-color brown, chang- 
ing below the lip to a cherry-pink; lip and interior of neck in 


white. 
Height, 1214 inches. 


124—Rosin’s-Ece SourrLe Vase (Ch’ten-lung) 
Globular bottle-form on a deep foot, with sloping shoulder, full 
neck and spreading lip. Dense porcelain coated with a robin’s- 
egg soufflé glaze mottled with rich blue, and having an unctuous 
surface of soft luster. The glaze continues under the foot and 


on the interior of the neck. 
Height, 13°4 inches. 


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125—Lane-yao Jar (K’ang-hsi) 

Inverted pear-shape, with high shoulder and flaring foot. Res- 
onant porcelain coated with a brilliant sang-de-beuf glaze of rich 
depths and glowing hue, its surface of mirror properties. A 
characteristic crackle is perceptible, though almost lost in the 
richness and glow of the red, which lower on the sides reveals 
the arrested drip of thickening congelation, and around the 
foot the hue of the coagulated blood turning brown, with fresh 
red spots over it. The interior and underfoot glazed in rice- 
color with café-au-lait crackle. 'Teakwood hat-shaped cover. 


Height, 81, inches. 


126—Powver-BLUE BEAKER-sHAPED VasE (K’ang-hsi) 


Conventional beaker form with lower body in inverted pear- 
shape and the cylindrical neck expanding in a flaring lip. Dense 
porcelain covered with a brilliant glaze of bleu-fowetté, the color 
deepening in a molded band at the base of the neck; interior of 


neck glazed in white. 
Height, 18 inches. 


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127—Mrrror-sirack BEAKER-sHAPED Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Clear resonant porcelain, heavy, invested with a brilliant glaze 
of mirror-black profusely ornamented in gold. On both neck 
and body, besides lightly penciled scroll, lattice, scepter-head 
and meander borders, are groups of warriors on horseback ac- 
companied by figures afoot, all on a hunting expedition, with 
numerous small animals, seen scampering or impaled at their 
feet. The porcelain is K’ang-hsi: the decoration, in gold, is 


modern. Mark: Blue double ring. 
Height, 1714 inches. 


128—Tatt BeaKer-sHapep VAsE (K’ang-hst) 


In the class of the K’ang-hsi mirror-blacks, but the glaze in this 
one, though of the same brilliant mirror quality, is a sort of 
golden seal-brown, running into the soft, rich, greenish-brown 
that sometimes is spoken of as hare’s fur. It is profusely orna- 
mented in gold with plum, chrysanthemum and other floral and 
fruit motives, the scepter-head and other conventional borders. 


Marked with the blue double ring. 
Height, 18 inches. 


129—Rep anv Buackx Borrie-sHarep Vase (Chia Ch’ing) 


Ovoidal with straight full neck. Coated with a mirror glaze of 
deep, glowing red, striated, of the orange-peel surface, and on 
parts of the shoulder and neck exhibiting patches of a rich 
black. Around the rim a café-au-lait crackled glaze. (Neck 
repaired. ) 

Height, 13% inches. 


130—FLamBe BotriE-rorm VasE (Chien-lung) 


Squat ovoidal body on a bold foot, with tall slender neck. Bril- 
liantly glazed in dark purplish-red, delicately splashed with 
grayish-blue. Around the top of the neck a café-au-lait glaze, 


crackled. 
Height, 131, inches. 


131—Brown Botrie-rorm Vase (Yung Chéng) 


Large pear-shaped body on a bold, slightly’ convex foot, the 
double base of the neck molded and scalloped, the neck grace- 
fully contracting and expanding again to a broad and shallow 
cup lip. On the neck two elephant-head handles in high relief. 


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Heavy porcelain coated with a mirror glaze of deep, rich seal 
brown hue, with fine peau-d’orange surface. Interior of the neck 
white, streaked with a brown crackle. The brown glaze con- 
tinues under the foot, where the seal mark of Yung Chéng is in- 


cised beneath the glaze. 
Height, 1514 inches. 


1382—FriamsBt Borrie-sHarep Vase (Chten-lung) 


Large egg-form on a low foot, with tapering shoulder and short 
slender neck. Heavy vibrant porcelain, coated with a mirror 
glaze of deep, rich red, with the orange-peel surface, streaked 
and lightly splashed with purplish blue. Lip tipped with a café- 


au-lait glaze, crackled. 
Height, 151, inches. 


133—CeExapon Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


With cylindrical, drum-shaped center, contracting below and 
above to a slightly spreading, finely molded foot and a wide 
neck with lightly expanding lip. Sonorous porcelain, with a 
decoration molded and carved in the paste, consisting of deep 
borders of palmations on the neck and above the foot, besides 
various other borders, and around the cylinder a band of the 
archaic dragon-scroll in which eight of the dragon heads ap- 
pear. The whole coated with a glaze of pure sea-green tint, its 
tone modified according to its depth over the underglaze mod- 
eling. 

Height, 1314, inches. 


1384—Buackx BorrLiE-sHAPED VASE 


Full ovoidal body on a bold foot, with sloping shoulder, the neck 
marked by a molded ring and expanding in a bulbous lip. Cov- 
ered with a brilliant brownish-black glaze of mirror quality, the 


bulbous lip a deep golden-brown. 
Height, 15%, inches. 


185—Tartu FiamBt Borrie-sHarep VasE (Ch’ien-lung) 


Egg-form, tapering to a slender neck. Clear hard paste cov- 
ered with a brilliant transmutation glaze of rich dark red 
streaked with a cloudy purple-blue. Around the upper part of 


the neck a café-au-lait glaze with fine crackle. 
Height, 16%, inches. 


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1386—Tatt Frampt Botrie-sHarep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Vibrant porcelain coated with a creamy-white glaze with café- 
au-lait crackle, which appears in various places beneath the 
principal, thick glaze of various reds, which are copiously 
splashed with rich brown, gray and a feathery blue. Under part 


of foot glazed, with café-au-lait crackle. 
Height, 1734 inches. 


1387—Tatut Botrie-sHapep Vase (Chia Ch’ing) 


Ovoid with sloping shoulder and straight cylindrical neck. Dense 
porcelain covered with a luminous red glaze of sang-de-beuf note, 
with orange-peel surface, marked throughout by fine vertical 
striations of darker hue. About the rim a dark café-au-lait 
glaze with fine crackle, and within the neck and under the foot a 


rice-color glaze with larger crackle. 
Height, 17°34 inches. 


1388—Larce Rep Amrpuora (Chia Ch’ing) 


Oviform, finishing almost straight at the foot, the bulbous 
shoulder contracting to a full, short and graceful neck, which is 
_surmounted by a broad and shallow saucer-shaped lip. Thick, 
heavy porcelain, coated with a rich, deep red glaze of mirror 
brilliance and marked by delicate striations. The edge of the 
lip is in a rich café-au-lait, and its upper surface and the in- 
terior of the neck show purplish-blue and brownish-black notes. 


Height, 18 inches. 


139—Larece Framst Vase (Yung Chéng) 

Spherical body on a deep foot, with full, slightly tapering neck, 
and a cup lip, both body and neck marked by molded rings and 
the foot pierced with lateral slits as for the passage of a strap; 
a reproduction of a bronze form. Heavy, dense porcelain, en- 
veloped in a luminous glaze of soft sealing-wax red of deep tone, 
flecked and splashed with delicate bluish and greenish grays. 
Under the foot the seal of Yung Chéng incised beneath the glaze. 

Height, 1784 inches. 


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140—Larer Framet Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Globular body on a deep convex foot, with a beaker neck molded 
upon the shoulder, finishing in a trumpet lip. Dense, heavy | 
porcelain, coated with a transmutation glaze of rich reddish- 
purple hue, splashed in waterfall drippings with bluish grays, 
the upper surface of the lip yielding also soufflé effects. 

Height, 1714, inches. 


141—Larce Botrie-sHarEepD VasE (Ch’ten-lung) 


Clair-de-lune, blue and black. Clear hard paste porcelain, the 
body ovoidal and low, on a graceful foot, the neck straight and 
full, with lightly expanding lip. Covered with a lustrous glaze 
of a delicate bluish clair-de-lune quality, with an underglaze deco- 
ration of bamboo trees in a dark cobalt-blue, an inscription in 
the same color, and seals and a growth of the sacred fungus 
in black. Underneath the foot the seal mark of the reign in 
brilliant underglaze blue. (Slight glaze defect at the lip.) 


Height, 13%, inches. 


142—Doe Fu wiru Cus (Ch’ien-lung) 


Modeled with open mouth and the characteristic glaring expres- 
sion, seated on the haunches, with a cub Fu climbing up over 
one hip. The head of the larger animal is turned back toward the 
troublesome infant. Covered with a brilliant transmutation glaze 
showing splashings and featherings of sundry grays and blues 
over rich reds, with various exposures of a café-au-lait crackled 


glaze. (Foot repaired.) 
Height, 141, inches. 


SECOND AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE 


SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 oO’CLOCK 


Catalogue Nos. 143 to 299 


ORIENTAL PORCELAINS 


143—Parr Brvue anp Wuire Vases (K’ang-hsi) 


Slender elongated ovoidal body on a spreading foot, with short 
neck expanding to the lip and animal-head loop handles attach- 
ing to neck and shoulder. Decorated in two tones of rich and 
brilliant blue with bamboo, pine and wild prunus trees. 


Height, 4144 inches. 


144—Bive anp Waite Wine Por (K’ang-hsi) 


Bulbous body in lobed and fluted fruit-form, with hexagonal foot 
and cover, and recurving spout and handle issuing from animal- 
heads. Conventional decoration of floral forms modeled in the 
paste and painted in deep and brilliant blue. (Defects in glaze.) 


Height, 634 inches. 


145—Buve anp Wuiret Jar-sHAPED VasE (K’ang-hsi) 


Egg-form on a deep spreading foot, with short band-neck. Hard 
paste porcelain molded in two series of overlapping petals, the 
petals decorated with smiling “Long Elizas” and sprays of flow- 
ers. Under the foot a character in blue. 
Height, 51, inches. 
146—Buve ano Wuire Borrre (K’ang-hsi) 


Double-gourd shape with short foot and expanding mouth. Body 
decorated with landscape and figures, attendants approaching 
a sage with arms laden, the neck with conventional leaf forms, 


in two shades of rich blue under a brilliant glaze. 
Height, 8 inches. 


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147—Buve anp Wuire Cius-sHapep VasE (Yung Chéng) 


Ovoidal with short graceful neck and spreading lip. Delicate 
vibrant white porcelain, coated with a brilliant creamy-white 
glaze with a slight crackle, partly in pale café-au-lait, and deco- 
rated in a rich cobalt-blue with a mountainous landscape at the 
seashore, buildings, and boatmen plying the waters. (Slight 
repair at lip.) 

Height, 16 inches. 

148—Two Buive anp Wuire Bottues (K’ang-hst) 


Globular on low foot, with sloping shoulder, and slender neck 
with bulbous expansion below the rim. Enveloped in a brilliant 
powder-blue glaze, with four foliate medallions reserved in white 
and decorated in two shades of blue with motives from the hun- 
dred antiques. ‘The neck bulbs are reserved in white also, and 
marked in fine blue lines with the cracking-ice pattern. Mark: 


the blue double ring. 
Height, 10%, inches. 


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149—Buve anno Waite HawrHorn Gincer Jar (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid, with narrow shoulder. Fine hard paste white porcelain 
with a brilliant cobalt-blue glaze in the cracking ice pattern, 
the disintegrating ice field spread with branches of the blossom- 
ing wild prunus tree in white reserve. The branches spring alter- 
nately from the shoulder and.the base, and the shoulder is sur- 
rounded by a crenellated border. Has carved teakwood cover 


with the plum blossom motive in openwork. 
Height, 81, inches. 


150—Buve anp Wuite HawrHorn Gincer Jar (K’ang-hsi) 


Dense vibrant porcelain, covered with a brilliant glaze of cobalt- 
blue cut by darker lines in representation of cracking ice, with 
thickly scattered sprays of the wild prunus blossoms in white re- 
serve. At the shoulder a crenellate border. Openwork cover 
of carved teakwood. Mark: the blue double ring. 


Height, 81% inches. 


151—DovstE-courp SHarep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dense, vibrant porcelain, glazed in a lustrous starch-blue, with 
a decoration of bats amid clouds modeled in relief in the paste 


and reserved in white. 
Height, 6 inches. 


152—Decoratep VasE (Tao Kuang) 


Deep ovoid body on bold foot, with short and slender neck and 
trumpet lip. Decorated in enamel painting with two figures pre- 
senting pots of flowers to a sage, and with rocks, trees, plants 


and bats, the bats in coral. 
Height, 5°34 inches. 


158—Patr DecoratEep Jars witH Covers (Yung Chéng) 
Inverted pear-shape, spreading at the foot, with short cylindrical 
neck. Overglaze decoration in enamels and light pencilings, con- 
sisting of vases of brilliant flowers and an ornate and varied deep 
shoulder border in floral, honeycomb and cracking-ice motives. 
Lesser borders of meander and on the neck branches of the 


sacred fungus. 
Height, 51%, inches. 


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154—Decoratep VasE (K’ang-hsi) 
Cylindrical club-shape, with lightly defined foot, flattened 
shoulder and flange lip. Decorated in enamel colors with a joy- 
ous figure romping on a water buffalo, followed by a man on 
foot under a torn umbrella; on the shoulder a lattice border in- 
terrupted by clusters of fruit. The white glaze discloses a slight 


iridescence. 
Height, 734 inches. 


155—Pair Five-cotor Vases (Ming) 
Quadrilateral, with deep square section on a pedestal foot, and 
sloping shoulder supporting a small quadrangular beaker as 
neck and lip. Decorated in coral, aubergine, cobalt-blue, green 
and yellow, with the flowers of the four seasons, peony, plum, 
chrysanthemum and lotus, in foliate medallions and with sprays, 
ideographic characters, bats, insects and articles of household 


adornment. 
Height, 10 inches. 


156—Pair Doe Fu Vases (K’ang-hst) 
The dogs seated on quadrilateral bases, each with a fluted vase 
of quatrefoil outline on its back with a cub supporting it. Other 
cubs endeavor to crawl up the parents’ bodies, and the ever- 
present brocaded ball is movable. (One repaired.) 
Height, 61, inches. 


157—SrTaTvuETTE oF Kvuan-yin (K’ang-hst) 
The goddess of mercy is seated, head lightly bent forward with 
hands resting on her knees, the left hand slightly raised. Her 
robes are adorned with the swastika, lotus, the spring motive 
of met blossoms on cracking ice, and hatched meander borders, 
the decoration being of the three-color order, in green, yellow and 


aubergine. (Slight repair.) 
Height, 91%, inches. 


158—Buve Decoratep Bow. (K’ang-hst) 
Ovoid on a deep foot. Light white porcelain, the exterior coated 
with a brilliant glaze of blew-fowetté, penciled in gold, with fan- 
shaped and circular medallions of white reserve painted in red, 
green, yellow and aubergine with various flowering plants. ‘The 


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interior is white, with the rock peony at the center of the bot- 
tom and a narrow rim border of sprays and symbols. Under 
the foot the swastika in a double square, within a double ring, 
all in blue. (Slight repair at rim.) 


Diameter, 734 inches. 


159—F amiLLE-vERTE Bow. (K’ang-hsi) 
Slightly ovoidal, flaring broadly from a bold foot. On the in- 
terior a rim border of sprays and butterflies in enamel colors, 
interrupted by white reserves adorned with fruits and flowers, 
and at the center of the bottom a conventional lotus in coral 
and green. Similar and more elaborate decoration on the outer 


side. 
Diameter, 814 inches. 


160—Ocraconat Pirate (Yung Chéng) 
Light, resonant porcelain, decorated in bright colors with a 
group of lady and boys and household ornaments in a white me- 
dallion, enclosed in a rose-du-Barry border with white reserve 


quatrefoils painted with plum blossoms and peonies. 
Diameter, 8 inches. 


161—Two Rose-verte Puates (Ch’ien-lung) 
Decorated over the glaze with a group of ladies and children in a 
garden—the children have caught a fish—in green, yellow, blue, 
aubergine, pink and black, within a yellow lattice border inter- 
rupted by sprays, and a broad rim border of rose-pink lattice 
with four foliated reserves in white adorned with sprays of the 


peony, plum and chrysanthemum. 
Diameter, 9 inches. 


162—Turee Puates (Yung Chéng) 
Light vibrant porcelain, the upper surface glazed in a purplish- 
rose of the rose-du-Barry order, with reserves of crossed and 
partly unrolled scrolls, painted with pictures of roosters, drag- 


gon-flies and peonies in bright colors. 
Diameter, 834 inches. 


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163—Tatt FamiILLE-vERTE Jar witH Cover (K’ang-hst) 


Slender ovoidal form, the cover cap-shape. Decorated in green, 
blue and aubergine enamels, and overglaze coral, with rock peony 
trees in blossom, birds on the branches and others pursuing in- 
sects through the air. On the cover, sprays of the wild plum. 
Mark: a blue double ring. (Neck and cover repaired.) 

Height, 91%, inches. 


164—Decoratep Friurep Vase (K’ang-hst) 
Elongated melon-form with recurving outline, slender neck and 
spreading lip, the foot and lip foliated. Decorated in colors 
of the famille-verte with brilliant coral-red, about the neck with 
motives from the hundred antiques, in two long body panels of 
white reserve with the plum and rock peony trees and a swallow, 
and in the intervening panels with sprays and butterflies on a 
pale green ground stippled with black. European gilt metal 
mounting including loop handles springing from satyr masks. 
Height, 1234 inches. 


165—Parr Decoratep Vases (K’ang-hsi) 


Oviform contour with spreading foot, sloping shoulder and short 
neck expanding quickly in a large trumpet-mouth. ‘The body 
is fluted, melon-like, the flutings yielding a polyfoil foot and lip. 
Resonant white porcelain, with a pure and brilliant white glaze, 
penciled in aubergine, coral, green, cobalt and yellow with flow- 
ers of the seasons, birds and peaches. Within the lip a border 
of detached sprays. (Defect in neck of one; lips slightly re- 


paired. ) 
Height, 1214 inches. 


166—Taxtit Frutrep Vase with Cover (K’ang-hst) 


Oviform in contour, spreading at the foot and with short neck 
shightly expanding; modeled in flutings or lobes, with the foot 
and lip folate. Resonant porcelain, coated with a luminous 
glaze of soft white and painted in coral and enamels of green, 
blue, yellow and aubergine with lions and birds on ledges of rock, 
cloud scrolls, conventionalizations of the lotus, and various bor- 


ders. (Knob-handle of cover restored.) 
Height, 1114 inches. 


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167—Cyuinpricat Jar (Yung Chéng) 

Clear sonorous porcelain, glazed in pure white, with a decoration 
in brilliant enamel colors of yellow, red, blue, black and auber- 
gine, besides coral, picturing a landscape with pine trees and 
clouds, and seven figures. In the figure group a lady of rank 
with two attendants is presenting a chubby man-child to a re- 
turning warrior who comes riding on a piebald horse, accom- 
panied by attendants on foot. 


Diameter, 7 inches. 


168—Two Pownper-BLvE Decoratep Botriers (K’ang-hsi) 
Globular with low foot and bulbous neck. Coated with a bright 
glaze of powder-blue, two quatrefoil medallions being reserved 
in white on the body and two leaf-shaped medallions on the neck. 
In the larger medallions butterflies and birds are seen above pe- 
onies and sunflowers, and in the smaller ones are floral themes, 


all in varied enamel colors. 
| Height, 101%, inches. 


169—Cyurnpricat Cius-sHAarep Vase (K’ang-hsi) 
With lightly defined foot. Clear white porcelain coated with 
a cobalt-blue glaze penciled in gold with vases of flowers, house- 
hold ornaments, sprays and scrolls. In two reserved panels of 
white ground Chinese ladies on garden terraces, one seated, one 
standing, are pictured in enamel colors and coral. (Lip re- 


paired. ) 
Height, 1114 inches. 


170—Decoratep Grncer Jar witH Cover (K’ang-hsi) 
Ovoid, in clear hard paste sonorous porcelain, coated with a 
glaze of soft and brilliant white and decorated in enamel colors 
of the famille-verte with trees, rocks, birds and flowers, and with 
additional blossoms painted in coral. 
Height, 9 inches. 
171—Decoratep Vase (Yung Chéng?) 
Almost cylindrical, with slightly ovoidal outline, narrow sloping 
shoulder and short wide neck with everting lip. Vibrant porce- 
lain, covered with a soft milk-white glaze of brilliant surface and 
decorated in enamel colors of the famille-verte, with the addition 
of coral, with blossoming tree peonies growing among rocks. 
Height, 13 inches. 


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172—Famitie-verRTE Derp Praaue (K’ang-hsi) 
The upper surface of the bottom is decorated with a kylin run- 
ning on a tree and rock lined road, and a feng-huang flying in 
the clouds overhead, while in a conventional border appear flow- 
ers and more of the supernatural beasts, all in enamel colors. 
On the under surface of the rim are peony sprays in coral-red 
and green. The rim is fluted. Under the bottom an owner’s 


mark in blue within a blue double ring. 
Diameter, 1414 inches. 


173—Larce Faminie-verte PLaeve (K’ang-hst) 

In the center a landscape medallion with figures, within a lattice 
border, surrounded by a band of conventional petals decorated 
with various blossoming plants, and this in turn encompassed 
by a ring of foliated medallions displaying flowers, birds and 
beasts, all in enamel colors, while about the rim is a border of 
small floral medallions on a honeycomb ground. Under the bot- 
tom, the hua (a painting), from “the eight precious things,” in 
blue within a blue double ring. 


Diameter, 18 inches. 


174—Decoratep Jar (Chia-Ch’ing) 


Cylindrical, with indrawn foot, sloping shoulder, short neck and 
spreading lip. Decorated with mountain and seashore views, 
under the influence of European perspective, pavilions and gar- 
dens, and figures, including boys playing with chickens, in bril- 
hant enamel colors, and coral penciled with gold. About shoulder 
and base brilliant areas of purplish-rose, bordered by scepter- 
heads and decorated with sprays, scrolls and emblems. Under 
the foot the seal of the reign in coral on white reserve within a 


field of mottled and iridescent pistache-green. 
Height, 1114 inches. 


175—DecoratTep GincER Jar (Yung Chéng) 
Ovoid, with a carved openwork teakwood cover. Coated with a 
lustrous yellowish-bronze glaze, with leaf medallions reserved 
in white and decorated in enamel colors with branches of the 
peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and plum. Lesser reserves are 
enameled with brilliant butterflies. ‘The shoulder is encircled by 


a green lattice interrupted by red blossoms. 
Height, 81% inches. 


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176—Pair Decorated Gincer Jars (Yung Chéng) 


Ovoid, with carved openwork teakwood covers. Glazed in a bril- 
hant yellowish-brown of dark tone, which is interrupted by four 
foliate medallions in white reserve, adorned with branches of the 
rock peony in rich enamel coloring, and smaller circular medal- 
lions with conventional decoration similarly accomplished. 


Mark: a blue double ring. 
Height, 834, inches. 


177—Taxu Cxivus-sHapep Vase (Yung Chéng) 

Of the cylindrical order but tapering slightly from shoulder to 
flat foot; shoulder rounding into a graceful neck with spreading 
lip. Fine vibrant porcelain, decorated in rose, yellow, green, 
blue, awbergine and other hues with a pine tree, rocks and flowers 
at the seashore, and a group of the gods of rank, happiness and 
longevity, Lu, Fu and Shou, with an attendant and children. 

| Height, 16%, inches. 


178—F aMILLE-vERTE VasE (K’ang-hst) 
Oviform with spreading foot, flattened shoulder, and wide neck 
finished with a metal rim. Heavy porcelain, decorated in green, 
yellow and aubergine enamels and coral, in series of panels, with 
articles of the hundred antiques, mountainous landscapes, tree 
peonies, and fabulous animals, the decoration covering both body 
and neck, with a lattice border on the neck and a scroll border at 


the foot. 
Height, 18 inches. 


179—Panetep Jar (Ming) 

Ovoidal with high, narrow shoulder, the outline very slightly re- 
curving to the flat foot; short neck with thickened lip. Heavy 
sonorous porcelain coated with a luminous white glaze, the body 
divided, between base and neck borders, by vertical lattice bands 
of coral into four large panels displaying the flowers of the sea- 
sons. These, the lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and plum, appear 
in green, yellow and aubergine enamels and a rich dark coral red. 

Height, 1134 inches. 


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180—Imrerriat Dracon Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal barrel-form on a deep and spreading foot, with sloping 
shoulder and full, gracefully curving neck ending in a bulbous lip. 
Vibrant white porcelain with luxuriance of decoration. ‘The cen- 
tral body displays a ferocious five-clawed fire-breathing dragon 
in rouge-de-cuivre and a smaller not more pacific one in pur- 
plish enamel among enameled cloud scrolls of blue, green, yellow, 
aubergine and mauve on a white ground. On the neck, lip and 
about the base the ground is a rich pistache, ornamented in 
enamel colors with lotus and other flowers, and scrolls, and with 
symbolic bats and scepter-heads in the copper-red. Dragon. 
handles in coral-red and gilt. Under part of foot glazed in pis- 
tache-green, with the imperial seal of Ch’ien-lung impressed in 
coral on white reserve. 

| Height, 21 inches. 


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181—Two Decorate Manparin Vases with Covers (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal of slight curvature, with flat foot, sloping shoulder and 
short neck; mandarin cover surmounted by gilded Fu. A pro- 
fuse and varied decoration of floral and emblematic designs in 
-cobalt-blue, green, yellow, pink, aubergine and coral, with gold 
diaper, is interrupted by two large and various small medallions 
of white reserve painted with figures, birds, gardens, landscapes 
and marines in brilliant colors. The execution in these paintings 
reveals a curious intermixture of technic, and like some of the 
paintings on glass of the same period in China raises the ques- 
tion whether the work is that of a Chinaman under European 
influences—the European perspective is strongly in evidence— 
or of a European artist acting under Chinese inspiration, the 
latter appearing the more probable perhaps. (Both repaired 
at neck; one cover slightly chipped.) 


Heights, 261%, inches and 27 inches. 


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182—ImreriaL Decorated Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 

‘Graceful inverted pear-shape with high, broad shoulder and short 
crescent neck; foot relatively narrow. Richly ornamented in bril- 
liant enamels enhanced by fine pencilings with varied blossoms 
and foliations on a solid ground of deep rose diapered with a 
finely etched scroll. Formal borders in the bright enamel colors 
adorn the base, shoulder and neck, that on the neck having the 
rose ground of the body. Interior of the neck in pistache-green 
of smooth surface. Under the foot the pistache recurs, with 
orange-peel surface, encompassing the imperial seal of Ch’ien- 


lung in coral on white reserve. 
Height, 141%, inches. 


183—Pair DecoratED BEAKER-SHAPED Vases (Ch’ien-lung) 

Between borders of scepter-heads, meander and conventional 
lotus petals, the entire surface is ornamented with an intricate 
lotus scroll, with blossoms and seed-pods, amongst which vari- 
ous emblems appear, all executed in brilliant enamels with reds 
and pinks predominating, on a light imperial yellow ground. 
(Lip slightly chipped.) 

Height, 17 inches. 


184—Parir FamitLte-verTE Tati Braker-sHapep Vases (K’ang-hsi) 


Decorated in the characteristic colors with baskets of flowers 
in foliated panels of white reserve, between bands of green key- 
fret lattice interrupted by other jars of flowers over which 


butterflies hover. (Lip of one repaired.) | 
Height, 21 inches. 


185—Tatt Patace Jar witH Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Grand oviform, with molded shoulder, short full neck, and hat- 
shaped cover surmounted by a carved wood lion. Glazed in deep 
and brilliant blue adorned with floral scrolls in gold, and inter- 
rupted by three large leaf medallions of white reserve. These 
medallions are painted with peonies and other flowers in bright 
colors, as are numerous smaller quatrefoil medallions exhibiting 
flowers, landscapes and water views, this painting having been 


done in Europe. 
Height, 51 inches. 


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186— Evropran STAND 


Marble-topped circular tabouret on four cyma-curved legs with 
double-ogee underbracing, and knob feet, heavily carved in the 
acanthus motive and ribbon scrolls, and gilded. 

Height, 2414, inches. 
From the M. C. D. Borden Collection, New York. 


CLOISONNE ENAMEL 
187—C.LoisonngE Enamet Miniature Vase 
Of the Ming period. Cylindrical body with 


short neck and spreading base. Conventional 
lotus and foliations, bat symbol and scepter- 
head borders in red, dark-blue, green and yel- 
low enamels on a pale turquoise-blue ground. 


Height, 41, inches. 


188—Crotsonné Enamen Incense Burner (Chien- 


lung) 
Low, ovoidal body, with broad mouth, on three 
stump feet; two upright loop handles. Conven- 
tional lotus, ‘chrysanthemum and cloud-scroll 
ornamentation in vermilion, green, yellow and 


white on turquoise-blue ground. 
Diameter, 6 inches. 


189—Pair Croisonnt ENaMEL Covered DISHES 
(Ch’ien-lung ) 
Shallow ovoidal bowl with broad flat rim, and 
dome cover with knob finial. Interior gilded. 
Decoration of the lotus highly conventionalized, scepter-heads 
and the eight Buddhistic emblems of happy augury in several 
colors on a pale turquoise ground. 


Diameter, 6 inches. 
190—Cuotsonné Enamet Jar (Ming) 

Low, bulbous body, with metal lip, slightly flaring, metal foot 
and metal side-loop handles in the form of dragon-heads, gilded. 
Chrysanthemum decoration in vermilion, dark blue, yellow, 
green and white on a turquoise ground. ‘Teakwood cover with 
a jade knob handle carved with dragons and the sacred fungus. 
Mark underneath the foot, Ching T’ai (1450-1456.) 


Diameter, 5 inches. 


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191—Curotsonné Enamet Incense Burner (Ch’ien-lung) 
In basket form with heavy gilded bail handles which fold down 
upon the body. Decorated with storks wrought as medallions 
in white on a sky-blue ground, flowers of paradise and swastika 
symbols in various colors. The heavily gilded mountings for 
the handles are in the form of bats above cloud-scrolls and sup- 
porting swastikas. The cover is a hexagonal grill with bats and 
cloud-scrolls at the corners, and in the center a foliate medallion 
encompassing a bat among peaches, in soft reds, greens, blues 


and white. Undoubtedly a palace piece. 
Length, 744, inches. 


192—Pair Croisonné Enamext Borrues (T'ao Kuang) 


Globular with full, straight necks. Enameled in turquoise-blue 
which is traversed by a metal swastika lattice, this ground orna- 
mented with the lotus and peony in blossom, butterflies and birds, 


in brillant colors. 
Height, 9 inches. 


1983—CLoisonnE Enamet Tripop Incense Burner (Chien-lung) 


With two scroll and slit handles; carved and gilt openwork 
dragon finial on cover; gilt shoes and monster masks on feet. 
Floral and scroll design in enamels of various colors on a tur- 
quoise-blue ground. Mark: Chien-lung nien chih. | 
Height, 12 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


194—Patr CLoisonné Enamet Vases (Ch’ten-lung) 


Shallow compressed-globular cups on baluster standards in which 
the galipot-form appears, supported on broad circular bases. 
Decoration of bats, scepter-heads, scrolls and the conventional 
lotus, in dull colors on a dark turquoise ground. 

Height, 1014 inches. 


195—Cuotsonné Enamet Vase (Ming) 


Quadrilateral with bulging body and short neck, on a short 
quadrangular spreading foot. Decorated in vermilion, yellow, 
green, white and a dark purplish-blue on a _ turquoise-blue 
ground, with the peony, plum and Indian lotus, and singing 
birds. 

Height, 111% inches. 


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196—CuolsonnéE EnamMet Ox 
With gilt horns, tail and hoofs. The body is of turquoise-blue 
enamel, with stripes and swirls in dark blue, yellow, and red. 
Height, 714 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


197—Pair Croisonné Enamey Vases (T'ao Kuang) 
Cup-shaped body on spreading foot, with flattened shoulder and 
capstan-neck; two dragon-head loop handles. On the neck the 
ancient monster-head motive, archaic dragons and scepter-heads 
on a white ground of floral lattice. On the body the same ground, 
cut by depending palmations of various hues, bearing the ogre 
lineaments. On the shoulder the lattice ground is turquoise- 
blue, interrupted by monster-head decorations and medallions. 
Height, 1134 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


198—CuHamMPLeveE ENAMEL SET 
Incense burner and pair pricket candlesticks. The incense 
burner is globular, on three monster-head feet, with two upward- 
reaching scroll handles, the body supporting a pagoda of two 
stories, capped by a gilded knob finial. ‘The candlesticks have 
bell-shaped bases, wide fountain-basins out of which straight 
standards rise, supporting the grease-cup and pricket. Enam- 
eled in lapis and turquoise-blue, green, white, aubergine and 
brown, in various conventional motives. 
Height of pagoda, 13%, inches; of candlesticks, 1214 inches. 
199—CtotsonnE Cyiinpricat Vase (K’ang-hst) 
On gilded base supported by four pairs of cloven feet. Enameled 
in turquoise-blue, decorated with the Buddhistic emblems of 
happy augury distributed within a conventional lotus scroll in 
purple-blue, yellow, green, vermilion and white. 
Height, 121, inches. 


200—Cuorsonné Enamet Trieop Incense Burner (Ch’ten-lung) 
Globular with short neck and low dome cover with knob finial; 
scroll handles in the form of gilded dragons; curled feet with 
monster-head knees. Decoration of lotus blossoms and scrolls, 
and scepter-heads, in green, yellow, white, vermilion and dark 


blue on a turquoise ground. 
Height, 1134 inches. 


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201—Cuotsonnét Enamet Incense Burner (Modern) 


Quadrilateral, on four tall scrolled legs; upright loop handles; 
dentated ridges; openwork gilt cover with gilt dragon top. Deco- 
ration of archaic scroll, the ogre face and floral designs in red, 
white, yellow and dark blue enamels on a pale turquoise-blue 
ground. Mark: Ta Ming Ching T’ai nien chih (Made in the 
reign of Ching T’ai of the Great Ming Dynasty, 1450-1456) ; 
apocryphal. 

Height, 1444 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 
(Illustrated) 


202—Two CurotsonnE Canpiesticks (K’ang-hst) 


Bell-shaped bases support shallow basins from which rise slender 
standards, one tubular, one tapering, which uphold metal bo- 
béeches. Enameled with a graceful lotus scroll in subdued colors 
on a rich turquoise ground. 

Heights, 11 inches and 1834 inches. 


203—CLoIsonNnE ENAMEL SHRINE Canpiestick (K’ang-hsi) - 
In design of a mandarin duck, supporting a vase and pricket can- 
dlestick. The decoration consists of archaic scroll, floral mo- 
tives and ogre heads, in lapis-blue and other colors of enamel on 
a turquoise-blue ground. : 
Height, 17 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 
(Illustrated) 


204—CLoisonNE Enamet Trivop Incense Burner (Probably Ming) 


Squat, globular form, with gilt dragon handles, and cover with 
gilt dragon finial. The decoration of the conventional lotus and 
character medallions in low tones on a pale turquoise-blue 
ground. 

Height, 91, inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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205—Two Cioisonnét Enamet Pricker Canpuesticks (K’ang-hst) 
From a shrine. With bell-shaped bases and jade stone shafts. 
Enameled decoration of lotus, leaf scrolls and border designs in 


bright colors, on a turquoise-blue ground. 
Height, 161, inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


206—Ciotsonné Enamet Tripop Incense Burner (Ch’ien-lung) 
Gilt elephant-head feet. Cover pierced in gilt and surmounted 
by gilt openwork dragon finial. Floral decoration in various 
enamels on a turquoise-blue ground, interrupted by a pierced gilt 
band of conventional bats, and floral scrolls. Enriched by a 
balcony with scalloped gilt rim. Carved stand. 
Height, 11 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


207—Two Cuorsonné Enamet Vases (T'ao Kuang) 
In melon form on a deep foot, with wide neck. The deep flutings 
of the body are a soft gray-white, carrying a swastika lattice 
defined in the metal, and adorned with branches of the tree peony, © 
the wild prunus and other flowers, butterflies and birds, in various 
colors. Floral motives continue on neck and foot, and under the 


rim is a conventional border. 
Height, 12 inches. 


208—Cuotsonné Enamet Surine (T'ao Kuang) 
Hexagonal, with gilt scrolls and bells at the roof corners. The 
decoration consists of large flowers of the sacred lotus and folli- 
ated scrolls, executed in brilliant enamels on a turquoise-blue 
ground. Conventional base on six metal knob-feet. 
Height, 16 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York. 


209—Cuotsonnét Enamet BEaAker-sHAPED VasE (Ciien-lung) 
Quadrilateral, with serrate ridges at the corners. Enameled in 
the Indian lotus motive, highly conventionalized, in colors of 
low tone on a ground of dark turquoise-blue. (Some restora- 


tion. ) 
Height, 151% inches. 


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210—Cuoisonné Tripop Incense Burner (Ch’ien-lung) 
Inverted bell-shape, on three elephant-head feet heavily gilded; 
elephant-head handles, the trunks up-turning, and an elephant 
lying down on top of the dome cover, all in-the same heavy gild- 
ing, which supplies also numerous lotus leaves applied about the 
body of the vase. Turquoise-blue ground decorated in conven- 


tional lotus motives in various colors. 
_ Height, 13 inches. 


211—Cuorsonn&t Enamet Autar Ser (Chien-lung) 7 
Tripod censer with pierced gilt cover, a pair of pricket candle- 
sticks and a pair of beakers. Decoration of floral scroll and 
palm-leaf and scepter-head bordering. The censer has up-turned 
handles and dragon feet in gilt bronze; the godroon border at the 
shoulder is incrusted with turquoise enamel, thickly applied to 


resemble the stone itself. 
Height of censer, 13 inches. 


Height of candlesticks, 9% inches. 
Height of beakers, 9 inches. 


From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


212—Cioisonnt Enamet Duck, with Vasrt on Back (K’ang-hst) 
Copied from an ancient bronze shape (“chiw ch’e tsum”). Light 
blue enamel ground, with feathers and tail filled in with darker 
blue ornamentation. ‘The vase on the duck’s back presents floral 
designs in several colors, on turquoise-blue enamel ground. 
Height, 13°4 inches; width, 9 by 81% inches. 


From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 
(Illustrated) 


213—CLoisonnéE Enamet Coverep CHEst 

Reproduction of an ancient bronze sacrificial vessel. Quadrilat- 
eral, on four tubular legs, with two upright loop handles; cover 
surmounted by a gilded lion. Enameled in various colors on a 
turquoise-blue ground, the decoration involving the ancient ogre 
lineaments and archaic dragon scrolls. Both body and legs sup- 
port projecting metal ridges. 

Height, 1514 inches. 


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214—Crotsonné Enamet Trivop Incense Burner (Late Ming) 


Semi-globular, on tall straight legs. 
Archaic decoration of monster-heads, 
palmations and a floral lattice, in vari- 
colored enamels; beneath the rim a 
band of gilt bosses. Cover of black 
enamel with metal scrolls, surmounted 
by an open work dragon finial. 


Height, 14 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New 
York, 1911. 


215—Pair Cioisonné EnamMet VASES 
(Ch’ten-lung ) 

Pilgrim-bottle form on a short foot, 

with archaic-dragon handles. On each 

face appear phenixes among peonies, 

No, 214 a Shou medallion and the endless-knot 

symbol, in turquoise-blue, vermilion, 

green and white on an imperial yellow ground. Around the 

neck and sides the ground is azure, and this is projected into 

the yellow face in the form of a molded jw-i scepter-head carry- 

ing an emblematic bat. Bats, blossoms, ornaments and more 

Shou characters are worked in various colors on the azure 

ground throughout, and the neck is encircled under the lip by 
a scepter-head border. | 


Height, 1114 inches. 


216—Ctotsonné Enamet Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Pilgrim-bottle shape on a short foot, with bulbous neck and three- 
clawed dragon handles. Adorned with a profusion of peonies, 
the blossoms varying in size, in several colors on a blue ground, 
about the major portion of the vase, while near the foot the 
ground changes to a sandy-earthen color and supports the sacred 
fungus and numerous plants, variously colored. About neck 
and foot borders of scepter-heads and key-fret. 


Height, 1514 inches. 


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217—Pair CroisonnéE Enamen Pricket CANDLESTICKS 
From an altar. Bell-shaped bases, with fountain basins, mid- 
way of the standard, and broad grease cups. Palmette borders 
and conventional floral ornament in various enamels on pale 


turquoise-blue ground. 
Height, 14 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


218—Cuotsonné Enamet Incense Burner (Ming) 


Quadrilateral, on four tall feet of archaic scroll design; two up- 
right loop handles; pierced cover with jade dragon finial. The 
body with eight vertical dentated ridges adorned with Greek fret. 
The decoration of archaic character consists of ogre eyes, bats 
and cloud scrolls in enamels and gray jade. 

Height, 181, inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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219—CLoisonné ENAMEL Incense Burner (Modern) 
Quadrangular, on four tubular legs. Upstanding loop handles 
with an incised Greek fret band and gilt edges. Besides the usual 
archaic decoration of scrolls, ogre heads, emblems and other de- 
signs, there is a curious border of browsing animals around the 
lower part of the vessel. The entire ornamentation is in vivid 


colors, green, blue and red prevailing. 
Height, 12 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


220—CLoisonné Enamet Autrar Ser (Cl’ien-lung ) 


Tripod censer, with cover, a pair of pricket candlesticks and a 

pair of beaker-shaped flower vases. ‘Turquoise-blue ground, with 

conventional floral scroll decoration, the beakers with borders of 

palmations. The incense burner has monster-head feet, engraved 

with scrolls and fret borders incised in the metal. Its pierced 

gilt cover has a knob handle formed of a five-clawed dragon after 
the flaming jewel among clouds. 

Height of censer, 13%, inches. 

Height of vases, 12 inches. 

Height of candlesticks, 14°, inches. 


From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


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221—Cuoisonné ENaMEL SHRINE (K’ang-hsi) 


From the private apartments of the emperor at Yuan Ming 
Yuan, the Summer Palace. A high cylindrical compartment, over 
a conventional base resting on four metal feet, enshrines a di- 
vinity seated cross-legged on a thalamus, modeled in bronze and 
lacquered. The Buddha is elaborately and ornately dressed, and 
holds a symbol in the left hand, the right hand being raised in 
an attitude of blessing. The enameled shrine, with the character- 
istic blue ground, displays an affluence of decoration in rich but 
restrained coloring and vigorous execution, picturing emblems of 
happy augury amid scrolls of the Indian lotus. The flat roof 
is pierced with a Shou medallion and emblematic bats and is 
finely engraved, and the base bears an incised border of the thun- 
der scroll. 

Height, 15 inches. 


222—Pair CiLoisonNt Enamet Vases (Ming) 

Ovoidal body on a deep foot, with steep shoulder, wide neck 
and spreading lip. The turquoise ground of the body is threaded 
by a swastika lattice in metal, and decorated with peonies, chrys- 
anthemums, the lotus and other plants in green, white, yellow and 
dark vermilion, growing among rocks mottled with lapis-blue 
and white. On the neck a conventionalization of the Indian lotus 
appears, and‘ conventional borders include scepter-heads, pal- 
mations, scrolls and a meander. (One repaired.) 

Height, 17 inches. 

(Illustrated) 


223—CLoIsonNE ENamMEL PiaauE (Ming or Early K’ang-hst) 

Shallow dish-form with a flat rim and deep foot. Decorated 
on all surfaces including the under-foot with conventional In- 
dian lotus and mei-blossom scrolls, about a large medallion in 
the interior of the bottom where a particularly ferocious four- 
clawed dragon pursuing the flaming jewel is confronted by a 
swooping feng-huang. All in yellow, green, deep blue, vermilion 
and white on a turquoise-blue ground. (Some repairs.) 


Diameter, 161% inches. 


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224—Larere Cioisonnét Enamet Incense Burner (K’ang-hst) 
Globular, on three dragon-head feet. Decoration of floral mo- 
tives with circular Show characters and symbolic bats, and border 
of scepter-heads in enamels of various colors on a turquoise-blue 
ground. Handles of the feng-huang in enamel, with gilt wings 
and feet. Pierced carved wood cover, with crystal finial. | 
| Height, 21 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


225—LarcE Botrie-rorM CLOoIsonNE ENAMEL VASE 


Globular on a deep foot, with full neck slightly expanding at the 
lip. Turquoise-blue ground threaded by metal swastika lattice, 
interrupted by lotus flowers and seed-pods, chrysanthemums, 
plums and peonies, bird perched upon a branch, and a butterfly, 
in vermilion, black, white, green and yellow. Neck decorated in 
conventional lotus-scroll and palmations, and the further deco- 
ration includes various borders. 
Height, 16°, inches. 


226—Pair CrLoisonNE Enamet Tartu Vases (Early Chten-lung) 


Oviform, with low, narrow waist and lightly spreading foot, 
high, narrow shoulder and short full neck expanding at the lip. 
Turquoise-blue ground copiously adorned with flowers, leaves 
and scroll in a conventionalized lotus motive, and executed in 
several colors including a brilliant lapis-lazuli blue. Interspersed 
are emblems from the Pa Chi-hsiang. Conventional borders at 
foot and lp, and about the neck a band of bats with spread 
wings. 

Height, 201, inches. 


227—Pair CLoisonné ENAMEL Stork Pricker Canpiesticks (Ch’ien- 


lung ) 
White bodies with brilliant wing and tail plumage, and heavily 
gilded legs, engraved. Each bird holds in its bill an upstanding 
flower-cup formed as a pricket candlestick. On circular bases 
enameled in brilliant colors. 
Height, 26 inches. 


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228—CrotsonnéE Enamet Incense Burner (Ch’ien-lung) 
Quadrilateral of ovoidal contour and rounded corners, on four 
curving dragon-head legs of heavily gilded metal with cloisonné 
ornament; two scepter-head and angular-scroll handles. Deco- 
rated with character medallions and conventional floral scrolls 
in various soft colors on a turquoise-blue ground. Scepter-head 
borders and on the neck an archaic dragon-scroll border. Dome 
cover with cloisonné scepter-heads and gilded scroll openwork, 
surmounted by an ornate gilded knob-handle in openwork. 
Height, 191%, inches. 


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229—Patr CLoIsonNE Enamet Vasts (Ch’iten-lung) 


Hexagonal, with low foot, ovoidal contour, broad sloping shoulder 
and straight full neck. The ground throughout is a soft and 
rather deep rose-pink, cut by a metal lattice of swastika forma- 
tion, and the faces are separated by stripes of rich lapis-lazuli 
blue threaded by a fine metal fret. A decoration of pine and 
bamboo trees, iris, butterflies on the wing and singing birds on 
branches, accomplished in soft colors low in key, courses over 
the various faces in most artistic and dignified restraint. Narrow 


conventional borders at top and bottom. 
Height, 2214 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


230—Larce Crorsonnt Enamet Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Grand galipot. The body enameled in a soft gray-white, cut 
into a swastika lattice by the metal walls, and this traversed by 
tall, irregularly wandering branches of trees, bearing flowers and 
fruit, which issue from amongst rocks. This ornamentation ac- 
complished in lapis and turquoise blue, vermilion, yellow, and 
green. On the shoulder a floral lattice in dark green and tur- 
quoise-blue, on a dark vermilion ground, and on the neck a con- 
ventional lotus ornamentation of varicolored flowers and scroll 


on a turquoise ground. 
Height, 25 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


231—Larce CLoisonne Vase (Ming) 
Globular bottle-shaped on a spreading foot, with flaring lip; 
two metal loop handles, engraved. Enameled with a turquoise- 
blue ground, decorated in the characteristic colors with conven- 
tional lotus motives. (Some restoration; one side damaged.) 


Height, 18 inches. 


232—LarcEe CLoisonnét Enamet Incense Burner (Nineteenth Cen- 
tury ) 
Quadrilateral shape, with bold scroll handles and feet, and 
dentate corners. The cover surmounted by a gilt lion with bro- 
caded ball. Decoration of archaic scrolls and floral designs in 
enamels of brillant colors on a turquoise-blue ground. 
Height, 23 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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233—Larcr CLoisonnk ENAMEL VASE 


The body is cauldron shaped, set upon a spreading foot, and 
breaks in an abrupt shoulder into a wide neck which ends in 
a spreading lip. Four deep-toothed metal ridges run from the 
foot to the shoulder, outside the body, and are surmounted by 
devil masks in high relief lying on the shoulder. The body is 
cut into various panels by fret and other borders, and decorated 
in several colors with the ogre lineaments and sundry scrolls, 
after the fashion of very ancient bronzes. On neck and foot 
are floral scrolls in similar colors, and at top and bottom of 
the neck are bands of palmations. 


Height, 20 inches. 


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234—Larce Trieop INcENsSE BuRNER 


Modeled after an _ ancient 
bronze design. Semi-globular 
shape, on tall feet, with two 
rectangular loop handles and 
openwork gilt panels of scep- 
ter-head shape, and filled with 
lotus scrolls, the finial with 
dragon and _ cloud forms. 
Enameled in turquoise-blue 
and decorated with archaic 
scrolls, bat symbols and lotus 
flowers in red, dark green and 
other enamels. Encircling the 
body is a row of large bosses 
in gilt brass. Elaborately 
carved stand. 


Height, 20 inches; diameter, 1434 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collec- 
tion, New York, 1911. 


235—Pair Cuoisonnt Enamewt Piverim-sBotrLe Vases (K’ang-hsi) 


Deep “full moon” body on a bold foot, slightly elongated at 
the top and recurving in a bulbous neck. Two three-clawed 
dragons modeled in the round in gilded metal form handles, 
mounted on the shoulder and connecting with the bulbous 
enlargement of the neck. Enameled in vermilion, yellow, 
marble-white, aubergine, blue and a variety of soft rich greens, 
with a mass of peonies and leaves, smaller flowering plants 
and incidental growths of the sacred fungus. Instead of a 
decoration on a formal “ground,” the effect over the greater part 
of the vase is that of a conservatory thickly filled with blossoms 
and greenery through which the light filters, while around the 
bottom it is that of casual plants growing in undulating ground. 
Foot bordered with a purplish-blue key-fret on a turquoise-blue 


ground. 
Height, 2114 inches. 


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236—C1LoIsoNNE BEAKER-sHAPED VasE (Ming) 


Quadrilateral with short mid-section; metal ridges at corners 
and at the center of the sides. Decorated with the ogre linea- 
ments, archaic dragons and various scrolls in dark blue, yellow, 
white, green and vermilion on a turquoise-blue ground. 


Height, 23 iches. 


237—CLOISONNE ENAMEL BEAKER-SHAPED VASE 


Wide-spreading trumpet-neck posed upon an inverted pear- 
shaped lower section, which rests upon a broad bell-shaped base. 
Four metal ridges projecting. Decorated in conventional lotus 
motives in various low tones on a dark turquoise ground. Mark 


of Ching T’ai under the foot apocryphal. (Restored.) 
Height, 2314, inches. 


238—Patr CLoisonNé Enamen Srorxs (Chien-lung) 


Reddish-brown bodies, with blue legs and brightly colored wing 
and tail feathers. On bases representing mountain ranges, in 
several colors, with birds, butterflies and flowers found among 
them. 

Height with base, 831, inches. 


239—LarceEr Croisonnt Enamet Vase (Ming) 

Globular body on high spreading foot, with steep shoulder and 
wide neck, flaring at the mouth. On the neck two tubular han- 
dles. The ground is a dark turquoise, profusely decorated in 
various colors of quiet tone. Between deep bands about the 
neck and lower body, given over to a conventionalized scroll of 
the Indian lotus, a band encircling the central body exhibits bold 
grotesque animal and monster heads, similar heads are about the 
foot and also about the handles. Both bands occupied by the 
heads show also an intervening ground of the thunder scroll in 
fine metal lines. 

Height, 22 inches. 


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240—Larcr SPHERICAL CLOISONNE ENnameL Jar (Ming) 


With short neck and flaring lip; on-deep spreading foot. ‘Two 
monster-head and loose-ring metal handles. Decorated in one 
wide band and three lesser ones with blossoms and scrolls of the 
Indian lotus conventionalized, and in a neckband with scepter- 
heads, palmations and lattice, effected in yellow, white, vermilion, 
green and dark purplish-blue on a turquoise-blue ground. (Some 


restoration. ) 
Height, 2134 inches. 


241—Larcr CLOISONNE ENAMEL JAR 


Globular on a high and spreading foot, with wide expanding 
neck and upright lip. Two gilded loose-ring handles. Deco- 
rated in five broad bands with the conventionalized Indian lotus 
in blue, green, yellow, vermilion and white on a dark turquoise 


ground. (Some restoration. ) 
Height, 2114 inches. 


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242—Larcre CLoisonné Enamey Incense Burner (Early K’ang-hsi) 


A shallow cylinder with a broad flaring collar with foliated edge 
rests upon three balloon-shaped legs with flat feet, the exterior 
of the body decorated with the dragon-horse. On the legs and 
under side of collar is a rich lotus scroll, and on the upper sur- 
face of the collar a succession of archaic dragons above waves 
of the ocean. A cylindrical band above is pierced in gilt with 
dragons and pheenixes among cloud scrolls, and the dome-shaped 
cover with vase and globe finial is similarly in gilded metal, the 
enamel decoration being in floral scrolls. 


The piece is Summer Palace loot and received such a battering that 
the enamel portions show considerable restoration. 


Height, 25 inches. 
From the collection of Robert Napier, Esq., Shandon. 


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243—Granp Crioisonnt EnaMreLeD Tripop CENSER AND COVER 
(Ch’ten-lung) 

Globular body, with two long handles curving upward. ‘Tur- 
quoise-blue enamel, closely covered with bats (emblems of happi- 
ness) among clouds, in varied enamels, interrupted by six large 
quatrefoil medallions, each holding rockery, flowers and fruit in 
natural colors on black enamel ground. Shoulder is bordered 
with relief scepter-heads in gilt. Cover of gilt openwork, with 
bats and clouds in bold repowssé designs, together with three 
enameled medallions similar to those on body. Has elaborate 
globular finial in form of a coiled dragon midst clouds and sea 
waves. The three legs are enameled like the body, and spring 
from the head (turned upward instead of downward) of a fabu- 

lous monster. 
Height, 3214 imches; diameter, between handles, 28 inches. 


From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


(Illustrated) 


244—Larce Croisonné Enamet Vase (Ming) 


Globular on a tall spreading foot, with steep shoulder and thick 
neck, expanding at the mouth. Two metal loose-ring handles, 
engraved. Decorated in successive bands, in low colors includ- 
ing a good deal of dark vermilion, on a turquoise-blue ground. 
The principal band displays four-clawed dragons in pursuit 
of the flaming jewel amongst clouds above a turbulent sea; others 
are adorned with lotus and mei blossom motives, and the neck 
is encircled by a border of pendant bunches of grapes. (Some 
repairs. ) , 
Height, 21 inches. 


245—Pair or Larce Myruotrocicat Lions (Ming) 


With ram horns, wings and bushy tails. Enameled in green, 
blue, red, yellow and white; gilt feet. Carved stands. 


Height, 19 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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246—CuLotIsonnE Enamet Picture PAaneu 


Mounted as a screen, with carved wood frame and stand. Panel 
sustaining two five-clawed dragons, one yellow and the other 
green, playing with a large white pearl between them, the pearl 
giving out rays of red light like the dragons’ bodies. Posed 
on a light blue ground, midst multi-colored cloud patches. Panel 
(12 by 20 inches) made during the Wan-li period (1573-1619) 


of the Ming dynasty. 
Total height, 24 inches; total width, 2414, inches. 


From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


24'7—CuInEsE CLoIsoONNE EnamMet Tasie 


Low, oblong shape, entirely covered with cloisonné enamel deco- 
ration, the top displaying lotus and passion flowers, interspersed 
with butterflies in varied colors on dark green ground, filled in 
with twining blue vines. The edge of top has a large fret-pat- 
tern border, followed by a frieze bordering of archaic dragons in 
light blue enamel; under this appears an escalloped border, with 
turquoise-blue enamel ground that sustains flowers and butter- 
flies in colored enamels. Similar patterns and colors appear on 
the four square legs. Ascribable to the close of the Ming dy- 
nasty or early K’ang-hsi period (1662-1722). 

Height, 1334 inches; width, 31%4 inches; depth, 19 inches. 
From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


(Illustrated) 


248—Carvep 'TEAKWooD AND CLOISONNE TABLE 

High, long and narrow. The top contains a long panel of cloi- 
sonné enamel, picturing flowers, butterflies, ornaments, a medal- 
lion of the conventionalized Indian lotus, and foliations, in many 
colors on a turquoise-blue ground. Below the top similar orna- 
mentation encompasses the table, the skirt is in teakwood richly 
carved with relief foliations, and on rails below this are scepter- 
head plaquettes of the enamel again, with decoration according 
with that of the top. 

Height, 34 inches; length, 63 inches; width, 15 inches. 
From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


(Illustrated) 


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249—Carvep TEakwoop AND CLOISONNE TABLE 


Long, narrow shape, with teakwood panel top. ‘The four cor- 
ners are mounted with cloisonné enamel, presenting bats and 
flowers in several enamel colors on light blue ground. The center 
of each side is fitted with a narrow plaquette of cloisonné, show- 
ing similar decoration and gilt rim. The four sides of table are 
uniformly carved (as also outside surface of the four legs), with 
angular scroll patterns copied from ancient bronzes. 


Height, 33 inches; top, 564%, by 17, inches. 
From the Herbert G. Squiers Collection, New York, 1912. 


2?50—Patr Larce SEATED FIcuREs 


An empress and a princess. They are seated on garden seats 
which have oval perforations and a scroll decoration on tur- 
quoise-blue ground, with borders of large beads in red and white. 
The faces and hands of the figures are gilt. Both are clad in 
richly embroidered robes, artistically executed with enamels of 
many colors, those of the empress on a chocolate-color ground 
and those of the princess on a turquoise-blue and imperial yellow 
ground. These very important pieces undoubtedly represent the 
empress of Ch’ien-lung and a princess of her royal household. 
Mounted on tall stands of carved wood which are lacquered and 
gilt. 

Height of figures, 37 inches; height of stand, 33 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 
(Illustrated) 


251—Buppuistic STATUETTE . 
Female divinity seated cross-legged on a lotus throne, the figure 
and thalamus modeled as one piece in heavily gilded metal. The 
deity is sculptured with boldness and freedom and a mastery of 
expression, the robes are engraved with blossoms and scrolls, and 
crown and necklace are jeweled with turquoise. 
Height, 61/7, inches. 


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252—SrEnToKA Bronze VASE 


Pear-shape on a deep and spreading foot, with fluted neck and 
foliate spreading lip; dragon handles. The dark bronze surface 
dotted with typical gold splotches, and on either face an archaic 
dragon in relief. Mark underneath foot. 
Height, 10 inches. 
253—SHIRNE IN JAPANESE Bronze (Modern) 
A standard posed upon intersecting semicircles supports a cir- 
cular frame enclosing an upright drum-like compartment whose 
interior surface is gilded. The braces and parts of the orna- 
mentation of the shrine are formed of portions of sword-guards 
cut according to requirement, and gilded medallions of the Toku- 
gawa crest adorn the whole. 


Height, 15%, inches. 
From the Heber R. Bishop Collection. 


254—CuHINESE Bronze Dracon (Ch’ien-lung) 


A three-clawed dragon executed in the round in sprawling atti- 
tude, the sinuous body mounting in an arch near the center of 
the back and the head raised, with gaze directed upward. Scales 
are modeled in low relief, flame-tongues—the dragon’s breath— 
in bold relief are found on various parts of the body, and the 
dorsal spines are protuberant. Soft brown patina. 


Spread, 21 inches by 2214 inches; height, 94% inches. 


255—JapaNEsSE Bronze Incense Burner [| Bun-set (the period pre- 
ceding the Meiji) | 
Inverted cone-shape, broadly spreading, with a broad sloping 
shoulder returning above to the mouth of a wide and shallow 
cylindrical fire-box; on four monster-head feet of curling-tongue 
or elephant-trunk design; dish-form cover surmounted by a 
coiled dragon executed in the round. On the shoulders are other 
dragons with bodies partly concealed among clouds, a motive 
repeated on the under part of the body, in high and low relief 
on a ground of fine scroll work. Swastika, key-fret and scepter- 
head borders, and two upright rectangular handles. Under the 
bottom the mark of the famous artist and caster in bronze, Sei- 


min. Dark brown patina. 
Height, 13 inches; diameter, 1234 inches. 


Exhibited at National Academy of Design Loan Exhibition, 
1893. 


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256—JapanEsE Bronze Group 

Jurojin—Shou-lao, god of longevity—riding on a huge bovine 
with curling horns and lowered head, the head turned toward the 
spectator; a reproduction of a Chinese group. The figure of 
the god, which is detachable, is seated sidewise on the beast’s 
broad back, and his voluminous robes are engraved with Chinese 
designs, with characteristic Japanese additions, representative 
of embroidery. ‘The whole coated with a soft and rich dark 
chestnut-brown patina deepening toward black. 


Height, 201%, inches; length, 19 inches. 


257—Bronze Buu (Luropean) 
Modeled in active but deliberate motion, with left forefoot raised 
and tail curling upon back, and head drawn in in sedate com- 
posure. On a quadrilateral base of cream-white marble. Bril- 
lant greenish-brown and rich mahogany patina. 


Height (with pedestal), 1114 inches; length, 101%, inches. 


258—Woop anv Merat Inkstanp 
Oblong box of burl walnut, with drawer containing pen and 
stamp compartments and two covered inkwells. Ornamental top 
in bronze and gilded bronze, exhibiting an Ethiopian archer with 


his hand supporting a small flower vase. 
Length, 10%, inches. 


259—Swiss SILVER Stanpine Cup wirH Cover 

Gilt. In the form of a jester whose body is a cask chased with 
grapevine leaves, escutcheons and two large masks; his right 
hand holds a pitcher, his left a wine glass. The head is movable 
and has a pierced crown of grapes and leaves. On the cask is 
an inscription which translates “For me the wine and for you the 
water.” Mark of Zurich. 

Height, 9°34 inches. 


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260—CoveEREpD SILVER StTanpine Cup 
On a broad circular base; cornucopia handles. Decoration in 
relief and applied, of female figures, lion masks and acanthus 
leaves; cover surmounted by a bull. Gold lined. 
| Height, 10%, inches. 
261—Two-HanpDLED LreaTHER Cup 
Mounted in silver. Cylindrical body with flat S-shape handles. 
The mounting consists of a plain lip band engraved: “Nullus 
est locus domestica sede jucundior, MDCLXXIII.” On the 
body is an applied coat-of-arms. Silver: Style of late seven- 
teenth century. Height, 5%, inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


262—Oup WuirrE STONEWARE EwrErR 


With pewter hinged cover. Oviform body. Cylindrical fluted 
neck with relief masks; curved handle and long slightly curved 
spout with a grotesque mask at the joint and an S-shaped 
scrolled bridge. On the body is a large mid-band in relief with 
dancing peasants, after H. S. Beham, with the inscription, twice: 
“Deiz Monat sein getham Wolauf Gred Wir fangen.” Maker’s 
mark: H. H. (Hans Hilgers). German, Siegburg, end of six- 
teenth century. Height, 1014 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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263—GERMAN STONEWARE EWER 


Mottled brown surface. Mounted in silver. Globular body with 
coat-of-arms in bas-relief. Curved handle and straight spout. 


. Height, 10 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


264—Tartut SPECKLED PorpHoHyry Cur 1n Grit Sittver Mountine 


Cylindrical cup tapering at base, with 
a dome cover, supported by a tall bal- 
uster stem with a pear-shaped knop or 
expansion, flanked by three scrolled 
female terminal brackets; splayed foot 
adorned with three different coats-of- 
arms separated by large acanthus leaves. 
The body has three hinged vertical bands 
with lon masks in cartouches alternat- 
ing with fruit motives, which join similar 
bands on rim and base. The cover has 
a pear-shape knop, surmounted by a 
warrior as finial. The knop is flanked 
by three scrolled brackets and joined 
to the rim by three bands with lion 
masks. Rim of cover engraved with an 
inscription: ‘‘Nullum clementia ex omni- 
bus macis quam Regem aut principim 
decet,” and on the base of cup is: “Foptis 
sequitur victoria, MDCX XII.” 

Height, 21%, inches; diameter, 51, inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New 

York, 1911. 


265—Iratian SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PLAQUE 


Circular shape, decorated with a half- 
sae length figure of a nude woman draping 

herself in a blue cloak; on the left, a 
large tree against a background where a castle shows. In black 
wooden frame. 


Diameter, 8%, inches. 


From the Diamond Collection, June 4, 1887; Catalogue No. 548. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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266—Hispano-MoreEseuE PLATE 


Bulging center, buff ground. Copper luster. Band of Gothic 
letters painted in relief. In the center, running rabbits; around 
them a border with an inscription in Gothic characters; on the 
rim, painted in relief, leaves and branches. Wooden frame. 
Hispano-Moresque. Sixteenth century. 


Diameter without frame, 10%, inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


267—ANCIENT PERSIAN JAR 


Oviform; with metal collar. Decorated in underglaze blue with 
ornaments forming five medallions containing floral motives, on 
the body, and a gadrooned and floriated. border on the shoulder 
and base; crackled ground. The ornamentation shows Chinese 
influence. Seventeenth century. 


Height, 1114 inches; diameter, 8 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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268—Larcre Bout Bracker CriocKk 


Style of Louis XV. Balloon-shaped case, with high bell canopy 
top and shaped base. Ornamented with brass, inlaid on dark 
shell. The gilt bronze mountings include a rocaille top-piece, 
front-piece and culot, and spreading feet, and palm scrolls on 
the top and shoulders. Guilt bronze dial with enameled hours and 
minute medallions, inscribed: “Fortin, a Paris.” - (1769.) 

Height, 43 inches; width, 245, inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


269—ReecEncy Carved anp Gir Pier Grass 

Upright. Modern plate glass in mirror and lunette, with bor- 
der of cut and engraved glass luster lozenges. The frame deep 
bow-shaped at base with a shell ornament in the center, and 
scrolls and short feet at the lower corners; shields with masks 
and rich open strapwork at the four angles, and pendent leaf- 
age and fruit at the sides; lunette top with spreading plume, 
monsters and doves; two gilt candelabra stand on each side of 
the shaft in the form of female half figures. French. Early 
eighteenth century. 

Height, 8534, inches; width, 50 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


270—PanorrLy oF OrrIENTAL ARMS 


Mounted on a large crimson plush-covered wooden shield with 
metal hanging chain attached. Body armor consisting of a 
round center plate of hammered steel, convex form and deco- 
rated with embossed flute ornament; gorget and side pieces at- 
tached by interwoven chain link. Two flint-lock pistols, locks 
and barrels damascened with gold, wood grips and stocks deco- 
rated with inlaid ivory lozenge ornament. ‘Two embossed steel 
fore-arm guards. Three long straight swords with heavy blades 
and semi-basket metal hilts with long spiked pommels. ‘Two 
“Katar” daggers, short wide base triangular blades (one 
grooved), metal hand grips and straight side guards. Two 
“Kukri” knives, heavy wide curved blades with edges on inner 
side of curve, wood grips mounted without guards. Two short 
daggers with metal hilts and scabbards, damascened with gold 
over entire surface. Two straight double edge short swords, one 


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with massive double edge grooved blade with buffalo horn hilt, 
the other a thin blade with carved wood hilt. Two native in- | 
fantry short swords with narrow double edge blades, mounted 
with brass hilts, one decorated with a lyre in relief on the guard. 
Antique embossed leather powder flask with metal spout and 


measure spring stopper; metal carrying chain. 
19 pieces. 


271—Panorpiy or OrteEntTaL ARMS 


Mounted on crimson plush covered shield, mate to preceding. 
Body armor consisting of a round hammered steel center plate 
with convexed surface decorated with flute ornament, gorget and 
side plates attached by flexible woven chain link. ‘Two ham- 
mered steel fore-arm guards. Sword with wide flat double edge 
grooved blade, semi-basket metal hilt with long projecting pom- 
mel spike. Massive straight double edge blade sword with metal 
cross hilt and wood grip. Sword with heavy slightly curved 
Damascus steel blade with edge on inner side of curve, etched 
steel hilt. Another of similar pattern with bright steel blade. 
Three “Kukri” knives with massive curved blades with cutting 
edges on inner side of curve. Small dagger with heavy ridged 
curved blade, buffalo horn hilt. Heavy scimitar with wide 
curved blade of finely wrought steel, brass guard and horn grip. 
Two straight blade swords with brass hilts. Small saber with 
curved blade and iron hilt. Two small “Katar” daggers with 
triangular double edge blades, metal grips and side guards. Wo- 
man’s dagger with slender blade, pierced with an oblong opening 
in the blade; delicate turned ivory hilt. Curious antique dagger, 
narrow wide back curved blade inlaid with gold ornament, slender 
embossed copper hilt, wooden scabbard bound with silver bands. 
Small bird shape steel powder flask, used to carry priming powder 
for flintlock guns. 

20 pieces. 


272 


Inutaip TEakwoop SCREEN 


Four-fold; solid teakwood panels, inlaid with jade, soapstone, 
wood, coral and other materials, which present in relief rock- 
peony and wild plum trees in blossom, a peach tree in bearing, 
chrysanthemums in vases, and various objects of household 
adornment, emblems and inscriptions. 


Height, 6 feet 31%, inches; length, 7 feet 8 inches. 


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273—CHINESE Sr1LK EmpBrorpErY Door Hancine 


Peonies and chrysanthemums, the lotus and the mei, pomegran- 
ates and the Buddha’s-hand citron, rocks and the polyporus luci- 
dus, mountains and pavilions, cloud scrolls and flying birds are 
embroidered in soft and brilliant colors on a ground of rich red. 
Above, a lambrequin of sage green is embroidered with more 
bright flowers and fruits and a company of a score of figures, 
including musicians, in a garden. Lined with dark green pongee 


silk. 
Height, 8 feet 9 inches; width, 12 feet (two curtains, each 6 feet wide). 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


274—AntTiquE CuineseE Mar (Eighteenth Century) 


A field of neutral tone, inclining to a pale apricot, is strewn with 
small blossom medallions in light and dark blue, white and light 
golden yellow, about .an angular-scroll and swastika central me- 
dallion emphasized in dark blue. Conventional border. 


Length, 371%, inches; width, 231% inches. 


275—AntiquE CuineseE Mar (Eighteenth Century) 
Deep soft pile. Oblong field of peach color, surrounded by a 
lattice border decorated with a composite medallion and peony 
conventionalizations in dark blue and turquoise, white and 


golden yellow. 
Length, 381%, inches; width, 211% inches. 


276—AntiavE CurtnesE Mart (Eighteenth Century) 


Deep, soft, thick pile. Field of soft apricot, delicately orna- 
mented in pale gold and white, with accents of dark and light 
blue, the ornamentation peony sprays and formal corners, and a 
floral medallion embracing an archaic angular scroll and small 


swastikas. 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 101, inches. 


277—AnTIeuE CHINESE Mat 


Peach-colored field, decorated in pale golden and greenish golden 
yellow, dark blue, white and light blue with the peony motive in 
high conventionalization. “Walls of Troy” border. 


Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


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278—AntTiavE CuinEse Mar (Eighteenth Century) 


Field of floral lattice in apricot tones, old gold, white and tur- 
quoise-blue on a dark blue ground, interrupted at the center 
by a peony medallion in similar coloring; corners of apricot 
ornamented in old gold and white, and border of the peony motive 
in the same colors with accents of light and dark blue. 


Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


279—AntTiauE CuHinEsE Rue (Kighteenth Century) 


Deep, soft, loose pile. Peach colored oblong field, decorated 
with formal corners and with five medallions, six peony sprays and 
two butterflies, in golden yellow, golden brown, white, turquoise 
and sapphire blue and pinkish-brown. Conventional floral bor- 
der embracing the same colors. 


Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


280—CuINEsE Rue (Chten-lung) 


Oblong field of light golden-buff, with a central composite me- 
dallion in which small swastika emblems appear, and about which 
are four butterflies, and conventional peony sprays and corners, 
all in light and dark blue, white and a deep apricot. Borders of 
angular fret, the endless-knot, and conventional peony pattern, 
and a boundary band of deep blue. 


Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 8 inches. 


281—Suiraz Rue 


Dark blue field ornamented with repetitions of the “‘pear,” or 
geometrical form of the palm, pattern in yellow, brown, light 
blue and white. Three borders, with additional bands across the 


ends. 
Length, 5 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


282—Prrsian Rue 
Herat, in an Ispahan design; the square field ornamented with 
conventional floral and geometrical patterns in red, green, blue 
white and yellow on deep, dark blue. Four borders, one with 
red ground, one with light blue, and two with ground of yellow. 
Length, 26 feet; width, 12 feet 10 inches. 


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283— 


ELABORATE Inpo-PorTUGUESE PORTIERE 


Eighteenth century. Dark blue satin profusely embellished with 
needlework in brilliant tints of silk, consisting of a central me- 
dallion displaying a seated female figure with pet dog, various 
borders of flowers, animals and birds, a coat-of-arms of a double- 


headed eagle surmounted by a crown, and corner ornaments of 


284— 


peacocks; edged with fringe and lined with linen. 


Torte Printe, Lare SixTEENTH CENTURY 


The fabric of this panel is linen, woven in rep style, the design 
being executed in watercolor. In the foreground of a yellow- 
golden court-yard are a lady and a gentleman, the head and 
bust of a young man appearing at the back. The lady wears 
a headdress similar to that of Mary Stuart, and a stiff upright 
ruff. Her robe of golden drab material shaded with rose and 
embroidered with rose and cream arabesques has a bodice cut 
square over the bosom and pointed at the waist. The skirt is 
open in front, revealing a dark blue petticoat. The man is en- 
cased in a tightly fitting, padded garment, pointed below the 
waist, with flaps over the hips, beneath which appear brocaded 
breeches and white stockings and shoes. Nearby is a group of 
swordsmen in striped uniforms. In the rear the yard terminates 
in a tall building with arched entrance and arcade. A distant 
view of the towers and walls of a city, lying amid hills, closes in 
the upper left of the composition. . Spectators seem to be watch- 
ing a confused reddish mass of figures in various attitudes of 
violence. Can the subject be intended to commemorate the 
Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1572)? In which case the fore- 
ground figures would be Catherine de Medicis, the Duke of Guise 
and the young King Charles IX. 


Height, 9 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 10 inches. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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285—F.Lemisu Tapestry, MippLe SixtTEENTH CENTURY 
The Punishment of the Unfaithful Pedagogue. The subject of 


this panel, woven in silk and cotton, recalls the story of the 
pedagogue who tried to curry favor with a hostile general by 
handing over his pupils, sons of the beleaguered citizens. The 
children are seen at the right of the foreground, kneeling in a 
group, bare-headed, in attitudes of pleading. The general is 
seated at the left, superbly accoutred in gold helmet and blue- 
white cuirass decorated with arabesques, a crimson mantle fall- 
ing from his shoulders across his knees. From behind the gen- 
eral a soldier leans forward, offering a birch. In a farther plane, 
on the right, the pedagogue is seen with hands tied behind his 
naked back, which the youngsters are vigorously birching. Still 
farther back he appears on his knees before some elderly men, 
who are presumably the fathers of the boys. 


Height, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 6 feet 10 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


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286—Frencu Gosenins Tapestry 

Triumph of Cybele and Ceres. This superb piece, woven in silk 
and cotton, for Versailles, was executed about 1700. Cybele’s 
chariot wreathed with flowers, occupies the foreground, her team 
of lions lying beside the pole, the male facing around toward the 
front. Garbed in rose and distinguished by her mural crown, 
the goddess rests her feet upon a cornucopia, as she holds an 
oval picture of Hercules, with his club and lion skin, represented 
in repose. She is seated beside her daughter, Ceres. She is 
dressed in a sleeveless tunic of creamy, golden yellow, partly cov- 
ered with a drapery of bluish tones. At the left of the fore- 
ground, fruit, vegetables and garden tools are arranged about a 
basket. At the back of the chariot a stag is being attacked by 
a dog. On the right of the composition a cat is climbing a tree 
toward a bird that has alighted near a garland of flowers. 


Height, 9 feet; width, 8 feet 10 inches. 
From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 


(Illustrated) 


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287—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BrussEts TAPESTRY 


Classical subject. An heroic female figure descending from a 
quadriga lays an affectionate hand on the head of a somnolent 
youth seated on a bank beneath a tree, like Venus awakening 
Adonis. From the left, in front of the prancing brown horses, 
Cupid approaches with a box of jewels. The figures are robed 
in red, white, brown, yellow and blue, the colors all time-softened. 
Floral border. At the bottom the Brussels B and artist’s 
mark A. 

Height, 9 feet; length, 11 feet 8 inches. 


PAINTINGS 


CAZATI 


288—Irautian Coast Scene: Laxe Luy, Iraty 


The scene is a lake in the Italian mountains, with various boats 
upon it, some with sails. The water fills the foreground, and the 
irregular mountain peaks rise on the left and in the distance, 
and along the left shore is a village, with a church. 


Signed at the lower left: Cazatt. 
Height, 6 inches; length, 9 inches. 


IL GRISON 
Iratian: 1591—1666 
289—TIpPLine 
(Panel) 


A hearty chap with florid face, who likes his glass, is seated at a 
table with his hand on an empty goblet. In his other hand is a 
long-stemmed clay pipe. He faces the spectator and wears a 
broad and very happy smile. He is dressed in rich clothing of 
brown, pink, yellow and white, and wears a three-cornered blue 
hat with an orange plume. Against the wall behind him stands 
a ’cello. 


Signed at the lower right: Grison. 
Height, 10:inches; width, 8 inches. 


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G. PIERRE BEAUREGARD 
Frencu: 1847—1894 
290—Stitt Lirt 
In a filtered, subdued light, against a dusky wall background, 
four apples on a painter’s palette are shown, the palette tilted 
on a book lying on a brown-topped table. The apples are rosy 
and green, and near them is a tube of paint, and the handles of 
three brushes project through the palette’s thumb-hole. 


Signed at the lower left: G. Braurecarp, 1878. 
Exhibited at the Chicago Exhibition, 1893. 


BERCHEM AND VAN DE VELDE 


(CLAAS BERCHEM) 
Dutcu: 1600—1683 


291—LanpDsCAPE AND CATTLE 
(Panel) 


Cows, sheep and a goat, followed by a shepherd and his dog, are 
defiling about a mound in the foreground, toward a green valley 
of the middle distance which is more or less surrounded by steep, 
uneven hills. The cattle are white, brown and gray, and the 
shepherd has slung his blue blouse on a staff over his shoulder. 
Signed at the lower right: Bercuem. 
Height, 81% inches; length, 1034 inches. 


From the collection of Col. Harrison, England. 


R. L. ZIMMERMANN 


292—TuHE ConNOISSEUR 
(Panel) 


A friar in brown habit and a black skull cap beneath which his 
fringe of gray hair shows has come to the cellar for a dis- 
criminating sip. He stands facing the left and two casks of 
wine, on one of which a filled glass of the ruby liquid rests while 
the friar smacks his full lips over another glass in his hand. His 
candle rests on an upturned barrel behind him. 
Signed at the lower left: R. L. ZIMMERMANN, 1877. 
Height, 101, inches; width, 8 inches. 


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FRANCOIS BOUCHER 
Frencu Scuoor: 1703—1770 


293—La TortettTe (Portrair or “MapEmotsELLeE B.”’) 


Life size, bust, almost half length, the face turned three-quarters 
to the left, the eyes looking down at a mirror in the foreground 
to the left front. She is arranging flowers and pearls in her 
hair. As she reclines against the cushions, the breast and arms 
emerge nude from white draperies, with rose draperies to the 
right and in front in the foreground. . Nestled: among flowers, 
green leaves and draperies in front, a turtle dove looks up at 
her. The model for the picture was one of the famous actresses 
of the time. 


From the collection of the King of Bavaria. 
Height, 26 inches; width, 24 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


JAKOB VAN RUYSDAEL 
Dutcu ScHoor: 16380—1682 
294— LanpDscaPE 
. (Panel) 
A quiet landscape with low horizon and sky full of thin clouds. 
A road along a winding stream leads between clusters of tall 
trees in the middle of the picture, towards a church in the dis- 
tance. Typical foreground with brush and tree-stumps on the 
slowly rising uplands, a dead pollard willow to the left, and 
figures on the road, among them a horseman led by an old man. 


Height, 24 inches; length, 29 inches. 


A narrow strip has been added to the bottom on which, in the lower right hand cor- 
ner, is the signature, RuyspaEL, 1644. 


From the Robert Hoe Collection, New York, 1911. 
(Illustrated) 


JAN BOTH 
Durcu: 1610—1652 
295— LANDSCAPE 
On a high hill in the center of the composition is a classical 
building and a statue, the slopes support trees, and in the vale 
below are various reddish-brown buildings with slant roofs. Nu- 
merous figures are to be found, standing or walking about on 
the greenish-yellow uneven ground, and the end of a pond comes 


into view. Height, 141%, inches; length, 18 inches. 


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IL GUERCINO (GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI) 
Iranian: 1591—1666 


296—AneeELica E MrEporo 

The lovers are sitting and reclining on a bench in wooded coun- 
try at the foot of a double-trunked tree, both figures nude, en- 
gaged in carving their names in the bark. ‘The man’s figure is 
of a hardy, swarthy hue, that of the lady fresh and fair. She 
wears a jeweled armlet. Back of the tree Cupid is waving a 
flaming torch. On one of the trunks is already carved “Angelica 
Medoro amante espose,” and a repetition has been started, she 
guiding his hand. . 

. Height, 151% inches; width, 1314 inches. 


On the back of the stretcher is this writing: “The capital picture of Angelica and 
Medoro by Guercino, at Christie’s Rooms, Pall Mall, was purchased on Thurs- 
day last, (27th. Feb. 1777), by a noble Earl for 500 guineas.” 


Accompanied by an engraving by Raphael Morghen, with the lines from the “Orlando 
Furioso” (canto XIX, stanza 36): 
Angelica e Medoro in varj modi 
Legati insieme di diversi nodi 


and the inscription: “To His Royal Highness Prince Frederic Augustus this 
plate is humbly inscribed by His Royal Highness’s much obliged and humble 
servant,” 


CASPAR NETSCHER 
Dutrcu: 1639—1684 


297—Tue Musician 
(Panel) 


A young lady with hair dressed in long and precise ringlets 1s 
seated facing the observer, a strong light full upon her. On her 
lap is a book of music and she is singing some notes to herself 
and marking time with one outstretched hand. At her side a 
’cello leans against the wall. She is dressed in a loose blouse of 
white satin, the low corsage trimmed with folds of mauve lace, 
and a voluminous blue skirt with silver embroidery. 


Height, 15 inches; width, 12 inches. 


Exhibited at the Union League Club, 1892, and at the Loan Exhibition in the Fine 
Arts Building, West Fifty-seventh Street, 1893. 


Second and Last Afternoon 


LOUIS STASIAK 
AUSTRIAN 


298—TuHeE Brive 
A bride in her white gown and veil and green wreath is observed 
in profile to the left, kneeling beside an armchair on which are 
small bouquets, her eyes directed upward. Around are palms 
and other plants. A bracelet and chain lie on the floor by an 
overturned jewel box. Through parted curtains in the back- 
ground comes an elderly man in evening clothes, carrying a large 
bridal bouquet. 

Signed at the lower right: Louis SrastaK. 

Height, 6614, inches; width, 44 inches. 
Exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893. 


FLEMISH SCHOOL, SECOND HALF XVI CENTURY 
299—ADORATION OF THE Mact 
(Panel) 


The Three Kings are advancing from the left towards the 
seated Virgin, seen three-quarter length and holding the Child 
who extends His arms towards a cup filled with gold coins that 
the first King is presenting to Him. Joseph in red gown, hat in 
hand, is behind and to the right of Mary. Elaborate archi- 
tectural background through which is seen a Flemish landscape 
with a village. The figures are life size. 


Height, 33°, inches; length, 491, inches. 


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